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TIL that Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm

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x6Veg TIL author H.G. Wells married his cousin in 1891. The couple later separated when H.G. Wells fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins. This entire period was the most productive in H.G. Wells' whole writing career producing The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, among others.
9YYBQ TIL about the Do's and Don't in visiting Temples and Shrines in Japan
rVyo TIL of Gerald Fit Mason, who was caught and convicted in 2003 for the 1957 murder of two police officers. He was identified by the the scar left by a bullet fired by one of his dying victims.
7lG7 TIL American Airlines once offered an unlimited flight ticket for $350,000 dollars. It ended up costing them millions when some passengers used the tickets to fly over 30 million miles.
PYZ1V TIL that someone created a life sized Jason Voorhees and planted him at the bottom of a lake for divers to stumble across