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TIL There is a conspiracy theory that Eminem died in 2006 and has been replaced by a clone

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yleJ TIL that soaking the leaves, branches, and flowers of a marijuana plant in alcohol will make a THC infused alcoholic beverage called Green Dragon.
0wmNM TIL At the end of WW2 30,000 copies of Munro Leaf's 'The Story of Ferdinand' were given out to German children in order to encourage peace. It had previously been banned under Hitler.
m1DxY TIL in 1979 the campaign promise of two guys running for student government included bringing the Statue of Liberty Wisconsin. When they won, they spent $4,000 of University funds creating a replica of Lady Liberty buried up to her eyes in frozen Lake Menota
kJ5oe TIL that despite being as wide as the US, all of China is in the same timezone
78kwL TIL in 1991, the last of California's manual telephone switchboards, which used pull and plug cords, was being replaced with computerized equipment. Most phone companies had replaced them in the 1950s but the owner of Kerman Telephone Company stalled because he did not want to lay off any operators