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TIL of Six Californias, a proposed initiative in 2016 to split California into six separate states: Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California, and South California. The initiative failed to meet the required signatures to make the ballot.

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Ooe87 TIL: Wales can trace its throne in continual rulership back to the Romano-British, making it technically the last Roman rump state left in Europe.
Pd4J TIL that codeine is broken down in the liver to become morphine and that’s why it’s such an effective painkiller.
9Yvo6 TIL Goldfinger was banned in Israel after it was reported that the actor playing Goldfinger, Gert Fröbe, was a former member of the Nazi party. The ban was lifted when it was discovered he helped to hide two Jews in his basement during the war.
E8dx TIL Native American men do not suffer from male pattern baldness
yVv7X TIL that in 1987, James Cannon, an aide to Howard H. Baker Jr., Ronal Reagan’s chief of staff, suggested in a memo that Baker invoke the 25th amendment due to Reagen's age at the time. Baker observed the president afterwards, but did not invoke the 25th as he didn't see anything listed in the memo.