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TIL California still has a large oil industry right in major cities like LA, but disguises the sites to look like office buildings.

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a8nay TIL that a California court ruled that a man was not entitled to the $3 billion market value of his cells, which his doctor had secretly commercialized after removing his spleen.
6KOZ TIL In 2003, a panel of prominent US experts decried Americans’ ignorance of outside world and argued that Americans’ reluctance to study foreign civilizations could eventually become a threat to national security.
9kjD TIL Marijuana was made illegal in 1937 by a man who testified that the drug made white women want to be with black guys.
5Y5gQ TIL that in 1997, Microsoft saved Apple from bankruptcy by investing $150 million into the company.
b91A4 TIL a baby born while a war is going on is more likely to be male