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TIL There are 6 state capitols west of Los Angeles

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5Nj8 TIL that Volkswagen was fined by the EPA for using “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests… in 1974, 41 years before the recent controversy over the same thing.
Z8k4Q TIL that everyone senses smell differently
xyaB TIL that the UN logo is centred around the North Pole to avoid any one country/continent being more prominent
OnJ1 TIL of the only lynching in Canada’s history, when, in 1884, an American mob crossed the border in order to hang a Native American teenager wrongly accused of murder.
OZn7 TIL a filmmaker, in order to expose “the general absurdity of what we all believe,” became a fake spiritual guru and ended up with a real group of followers who called him “the living embodiment of the divine.”