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TIL of pizza farms, an educational farm where the ingredients of pizza are grown in one convenient location

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kOaee TIL In 2002, highly toxic counterfeit cigarettes were being sold in the UK. The cigarettes were produced in unhygienic factory conditions, included tobacco sweepings, sawdust, dirt, banned chemicals. The cigarettes accounted for at least a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in Britain that year.
kOmv1 TIL Wild Rice is a complete protein, the only grain that is complete (if a bit low in lysine). Also the second highest protein grain.
OG6kR TIL of the "Pittsburgh Toilet". A basement toilet configuration with no surrounding walls
rNdP4 TIL in 1920, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers met to try to find a way to measure power in a 3 or more phase electrical system. They did not reach a consensus until 1993.
ParL TIL Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking with lung cancer