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

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5gdD TIL 21 years before L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series, he read a disaster report of a tornado in Irving, Kansas, in May 1879 which included the name of a victim, Dorothy Gale, who was “found buried face down in a mud puddle.”
KY67E TIL about one in every 220 Americans was addicted to opioids in the 1890s, mainly from patent medicines, and one of the most popular treatments for addiction was injections of 'bichloride of gold', which sounded impressive but had no medical effects
o1Lr TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.
JYBOV Computer scientist, mathematician, and all-around supergenius Alan Turing, who played a pivotal role in breaking secret German codes during WWII and developing the conceptual framework for the modern general purpose computer, was also a cracking good runner.
pYw4N TIL the capstone of an ancient Egyptian pyramid was found in 1900, it's made of black basalt and weighs 4.5 tonnes .