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TIL that the #1 high school in California also has one of the highest suicide rates in the country.

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WkBXB TIL that a dry seasonal riverbed can be called a wadi
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JY611 TIL Al Green’s song “Take Me To The River” earned more royalties from the Big Mouth Billy Bass animatronic toy than any other recording of it.
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