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TIL It's illegal in California to lie about eggs.

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8abVa TIL jalepeños are red,but because we pick them before they're completely ripe, we only ever see them green.
lA9V TIL The death toll of the Halifax explosion would have been significantly higher if not for a lone railway dispatcher. The railyard had evacuated after being warned of the impending explosion, but one man ran back to telegraph halt orders to all inbound trains for Halifax, saving hundreds of lives.
PYxGG TIL A woman smelled Parkinson's Disease on 7 out of 12 people in a test to prove her ability. Though only 6 of the 12 people had Parkinson's, she actually smelled the disease on one person three months before he was diagnosed.
Lkwlm TIL in 2002 producer Kanye West suffered a car crash that led to a fractured jaw. This lead him to write his debut single “Through the Wire”, which he recorded with his jaw still wired shut from the operation.
lavr TIL: When Davie Bowie heard Nirvana’s cover of “The Man Who Sold the World”, he said he was “blown away” by the fact Kurt Cobain liked his work, and said “it would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking with him would have been real cool”