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TIL: Treadmills used to be used as punishment for prisoners in the 1800’s. The treadmills powered grain mills (hence the name treadmill) and pump water.

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rReA1 TIL Eric Goode, the director of Tiger King, is a lifelong conservationist who protected over 65,000 acres of habitat for endangered turtles and tortoises through his his non-profit, the Turtle Conservancy.
Rww9 TIL a man named Wally Wallington proved that with rudimentary tools it is possible to move thousands of pounds of stone and even entire buildings single-handed, and is constructing Stonehenge: RELOADED in his Flint, Michigan backyard.
A7Yo TIL Bill Murray got arrested for suspicion of DUI after stealing a golf cart from a hotel and driving through the streets of Holmlund, Sweden
LkRWP TIL That in the US, Chicken is washed in Chlorine. This has been banned in the EU since 1997.
kOx0m TIL that cranberry sauce cans always have the label on 'upside-down' so that it will be stocked on shelves in the correct orientation, in order to preserve an air bubble in the can that makes it possible to get it out in one piece without having to open both ends.