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TIL haggis is illegal in the US because one of its key ingredients is sheep lungs.

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eBBk TIL Pink isn’t a colour… It’s invented by our brains
VMeRB TIL that Julia Morgan was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first woman architect licensed in California. She became William Randolph Hearst's principal architect, working on Hearst Castle from 1919 to 1947.
wnoJ TIL that Japanese write husband as “lord-person” and wife as “house-inside”. Also, testicles are “golden-balls”.
j69vM TIL Moon Trees: There are trees growing on Earth today that were grown from seeds that orbited the moon aboard the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. These “moon trees” are found in parks across the U.S.
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