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TIL Oklahoma declared watermelon a vegetable and made it their official state vegetable

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loppa TIL when all remaining California condors were captured to ensure their survival, they were de-loused. In doing so, conservationists killed all remaining individuals of a species of louse (Colpocephalum californici) that lived exclusively on the California condor, inadvertantly causing an extinction
aw8jb TIL that the HBO series Westworld is based on a 1973 movie by Michael Crichton.
WkLD9 "Ye" (as in Ye Olde Shoppe) is pronounced "The"
eKVE TIL Buzz Aldrin’s (second person to walk the moon) mother’s maiden name is “Moon.”
v8LB TIL 40 million people in China live in caves.