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TIL the two largest annual jazz festivals in the world are held in Montreal and Montreux

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W71w4 TIL that 200 students received "graduataion" diplomas in 2012. Spring Creek High School in Nevada received the misspelled documents from Jostens, which quickly sent corrected diplomas by mail to the students.
wLrGM TIL a team of international scholars have been working to recreate recipes from 4000 years ago from tablets. One Mesopotamian dish resembles a chicken pot pie, with layers of dough and chunks of bird smothered by a sort of Babylonian béchamel sauce
E1Z9w TIL a woman on the Oregon Trail went insane and decided to not travel further, her family continued the trail but eventually her husband sent their son back to get her, she then bashed her sons head with a rock and burned down one of the wagons
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