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TIL that the Los Angeles Union Station was Built on an Area that Used to be Old Chinatown

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rQG4 TIL a Polish footballer has 4 kidneys; a condition that affects 1 out of 5.5 million. He was diagnosed during a transfer medical
oBVPr TIL: In 1902, due to pressure from the butter industry, the U.S. government made it illegal to put yellow food coloring into margarine. This caused annual margarine consumption to drop from 54k tons to 22k tons due to the unappetizing stark white color of undyed margarine.
BnK TIL JK Rowling seriously considered killing off Ron Weasley mid-series because she was ‘in an unhappy place.’
Wkm6X TIL of a term 'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' which is "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to go to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."
JkAl TIL That the Bank of England only owns two of the ~400,000 gold bars in its vaults.