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TIL the myth about fake olive oil was started by an industry study out of California that has never been replicated.

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x67O5 TIL Carville, Louisiana, was home to the United States' first and last leper colony in the continental United States, officially called the National Leprosarium. It operated from 1894 to 1999, providing care and treatment for patients with leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease.
4kpbg TIL London Bridge Station has a working pipe organ which any passer-by can play!
9wb0X TIL a UC Davis student committed suicide because he was worried that he wouldn't get into graduate school
awmwJ TIL the electric car was invented before the internal combustion engined car.
7rm1M TIL about Karl Richard Lepsius, a Prussian egyptologist who led an expedition to the Great Pyramids of Giza during the 1840s, leaving behind a hieroglyphic graffiti above its entrance, praising the patron of the project, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.