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TIL that one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's servants took an axe and killed several members of his family.

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awbVL TIL the last time there were two named storm systems in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time was June 18, 1959
gMomb TIL that the Chinese government, worried about potential national embarrassments due to the behavior of tourists abroad, had the China’s National Tourism Administration publish an information packet titled, roughly, the Guide to Civilized Tourism and Travel.
A6Kg TIL in a test of cognitive dissonance, researchers paid participants either $1 or $20 before completing a boring 1-hour task. Afterwards, those who were paid $1 said the study was stimulating while those paid $20 said they hated it; the low-paid people had to rationalize doing the task for only $1.
dDX47 TIL that in the United States Virgin Islands cars travel on the left side of the road, it is the only place in the United States that does this.
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