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TIL honey bees are not and have never been on the endangered species list

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1amDX TIL Richard Nixon and his family were the first guests to ride the monorail at Disneyland
awWjJ TIL that the band Savage Garden got their name from a quote in the book The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
OG5ma TIL that Central Park was developed by claiming eminent domain and acquiring land previously owned by roughly 1,600 free African-American inhabitants
5Y4a9 TIL of the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack Dalles, Oregon, where over 700 people were poisoned with Salmonella so they could not vote in a local election.
8gMa TIL the word “mesmerize” comes from 18th century German physician Franz Mesmer, who used the sounds from Benjamin Franklin’s glass armonica to induce “animal magnetism” in patients. “Animal magnetism” would later be renamed “hypnosis” by Scottish surgeon James Braid in 1841.