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TIL: Homer Simpson Figured Out Higgs Boson 14 Years Before Scientists

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NJ1M TIL in the original 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, the Emerald City isn’t actually green; the Wizard requires everyone inside to wear green tinted glasses to make them think it is
eQV4 TIL that in 2012 the remains of King Richard III were found buried beneath a parking lot.
PYZ7L TIL about the Tarpeian Rock in Rome. In ancient times Romans threw traitors and murderers off this rock, named after the mythological first traitor to be flung from it: the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia.
wLAr8 TIL During the terrifying cholera epidemic of 1835–1836, the island of Sardinia was the only Italian region to escape cholera, thanks to surveillance by armed men who had orders to prevent, by force, any ship that attempted to disembark persons or cargo on the coast
Ypv9P TIL Watermelon is the official state vegetable of Oklahoma.