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TIL Wisconsin produces more cheese than Italy
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TIL: The last surviving widow of the American Civil War passed away in 2021. In 1936, 17 year old Helen Jackson secretly married 93 year old Civil War veteran James Bolin. He passed away just three years later. Helen would live to the age of 101.
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TIL that a Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia for saying there's no need to be afraid of scary-looking insects. In the episode the dad tells his daughter that spiders are "very very small" and "can't hurt you".
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TIL that there are actually fireflies all along the west coast of the U.S.; they just prefer to be active during the day.
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TIL Tom Cruise sent letters and gifts to the boy who originally played the little boy in “Jerry Maguire” but was replaced by Jonathan Lipnicki, because he “just didn’t want that first actor to go to the movies, look at the screen and think he’d failed. I wanted him to love movies his entire life.”
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TIL in the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.