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TIL the 3rd largest oilfield in the USA is located in Los Angeles.

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l7nnG TIL that horse hair was sometimes used as a suture in the American Civil War. Unbeknownst to the doctors at the time, boiling the hair to make it more pliable also sterilized it.
MeW9m TIL that a Millard Fillmore Society used to gather annually at his grave to remember how forgettable a president he was (1850-1853)
JYW1B TIL that during the "Red Scare" of the McCarthyism era, in 1953 the Cincinnati Reds baseball team changed its name to the Redlegs, only reverting back to Reds after the 1959 season.
vPVK8 TIL that after a farm accident the dying farmer scratched his last will and testament onto a tractor fender, the tractor he was pinned under, and that fender was removed and submitted to the courts and ultimately found to be a valid will.
kONPE TIL "jerry-rigged" is actually spelled "jury-rigged," from "jury" as in "temporary" and "rig" from its sailing origins.