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TIL: Osaka Castle is the world's most loved building

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QNkQk TIL: The famous piano coda on Layla by Derek & The Dominos was plagiarized
loXaN TIL the X-Files episode "Home" was so twisted, dark, and disturbing that it only aired on Fox once, was banned from re-runs on the network, and disappeared until the show re-aired on cable channel FX.
EVD7 TIL the Thirteen Club met in the 1880s to debunk the superstition about the number 13 by dining 13 to a table, walking under ladders, and spilling salt on Friday 13th. They had 5 US Presidents as members, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
78pa7 TIL the edutainment game The Oregon Trail was originally developed in 1971 and information was printed on paper
VBke0 TIL that insulin for commercial and medical use is synthesized primarily from genetically-modified E. coli cultures, as well as yeasts, insect, plant and mammal tissues