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TIL that no one can really agree on what the building in the California state seal looks like or what real-life building it's based on.

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9oMr TIL the Hairy frog is known as the “Wolverine frog” because it is thought to intentionally break its toe bones to force sharp “claws” through its flesh as a means of defence.
j6dda TIL there are 15 places named Wood End in the UK, with 3 being located in the same county
kJY7 TIL Andrew Carnegie would be worth a net total of $298.3 billion dollars in today’s currency, and believed that it was the rich’s duty to distribute their wealth to benevolent causes. He himself gave more than 4 billion away to charities and funded over 3,000 libraries.
9EwQ TIL 1/3 of homeless people in the United States have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (approx. 250,000 of 744,000).
e01l5 TIL of the Pazzi conspiracy, an attempt by the Pazzi family to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici and his brother Giuliano and displace the Medici family as the rulers of renaissance era Florence. Lorenzo survived the plot and the way he dealt with it led to greater public support for the Medici regime.