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TIL coastal water in the Seattle region is caffeinated

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l71LA TIL about the Rosenhahn Experiment, where several researchers feigned psychiatric symptoms and were admitted to psychiatric hospitals, only to immediately act normal after admission. None of the staff identified the researchers as impostors, and many had difficulty getting released later.
ANZgo TIL that there is a village in Japan that is built in "Swedish-style" with the common red wooden "falu-houses".
oRYBY TIL That in 1996, a hurricane formed over Lake Huron
788xb TIL that the American Association of Woodturners keep a running list of deaths due to patterning wood with high voltage sparks.
lomea TIL that Key West was called Cayo Hueso (Bone Cay) by the Spanish because of all the human skeletons littering the isle