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TIL No federal legislation specifically opposing lynching was passed in the US until 2022

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4XAX5 TIL that the Syndey Opera House is considered one of the worst project managerment failures of our time. It was 10 years late, 14 times over budget, the architect never saw it completed and the project manager never worked on another project in his career (he became a lecturer at Hawaii Uni)
R7Bx9 TIL Coca-cola originally intended as medicine.Is the ONLY company (US) that can legally import coco leaves. Early Coca-Cola had active amounts of cocaine in it from 1886-1930
XRMP TIL: The smallest parcel of property in NYC is 500 sq in
mx1Np TIL One of the most famous cartographic errors in history showed the Island of California separated from mainland N. America by the Gulf of California
DyWe TIL Kenya rejected aid of 42 tons of ‘dog food’ aimed at starving children sent by a New Zealand dog food manufacturer