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TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China

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lo81G TIL about Priceville. A small community founded in the 1800s by African-Americans not far north from what is now Toronto. It was mysteriously emptied of its black residents, its cemetery bulldozed, and the records of interracial marriages that occured there covered up.
N7dnM TIL that Mozart transcribed a piece of sacred music from the Vatican after hearing it performed twice, creating the only copy outside Rome.
pgZe TIL Bill Murray only got involved in Garfield: The Movie because he thought producer Joel Cohen was Joel Coen.
jNpWv TIL of Ervil LeBaron. He was the leader of a polygamous Mormon sect who ordered the killings of other sect leaders and members of his own family under "blood atonement." Some of his wives participated in the murders, there were at least 25 victims.
MAmK TIL that the time machine in ‘Back to the Future’ was originally a refridgerator, but was changed since they were concerned kids would lock themselves inside