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What piece of advice would you give to someone leaving California and why?

by QuestionGuy June 2, 2023, 3:50 am

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TIL: In 2013 a group in California were genetically engineering plants to glow in the dark and hoping to replace streetlights

by whatilearned May 31, 2023, 11:36 am

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Reasons why I should be the Governor of California

by CopyPastaArchive May 30, 2023, 8:46 am

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TIL A 30-ton shipment of explosive chemicals traveling from Wyoming to California by rail just up and disappeared. Kinda freaked me out.

by whatilearned May 24, 2023, 6:59 am

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TIL the myth about fake olive oil was started by an industry study out of California that has never been replicated.

by whatilearned May 19, 2023, 3:02 pm

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TIL that California company, Postum Foods, bought East-Coast brand, Hellman’s Mayonnaise, in 1927. As a result of the merger, to present day, both brands were preserved in their respective territories, with Hellman’s being sold East of the Rockies and Postum (now Best Foods) sold in the West.

by whatilearned May 16, 2023, 1:48 pm

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TIL a California woman filed a class-action lawsuit against Ferrero (maker of Nutella) after she was shocked to discover it wasn’t healthy and that the chocolate spread she was feeding her 4 year-old daughter was full of sugar and fat. Ferrero lost and paid $3M over false nutritional claims

by whatilearned May 15, 2023, 8:38 pm

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TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father’s Pasadena, California sandwich shop and “experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.

by whatilearned May 12, 2023, 1:43 pm

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TIL – Methuselah is a 4,854-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. It is recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world.

by whatilearned May 12, 2023, 2:09 am

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TIL that 27 people have died at Disneyland California and a total of 90 at Disney parks throughout the U.S.

by whatilearned May 8, 2023, 6:26 am

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TIL Sublime’s debut album “40oz. to Freedom” was recorded in secrecy at the studios in California State University. The lead singer, Bradley Nowell, recalled how they would sneak in after closing time, stay there till 5:00 AM, hide from security, and managed to get $30k of studio time for free.

by whatilearned May 7, 2023, 7:32 pm

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TIL: The Colorado River is going to dry up in about two years. Reservoirs could drop so low by 2025 that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam to Arizona, California and Mexico.

by whatilearned May 7, 2023, 8:23 am

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