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TIL that butter sticks are differently shaped and packaged differently depending on whether you live east or west of the Rocky Mountains.

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XEQWQ TIL that Tukhachevskiy considered as the first military commander to use chemical weapons against its own people. It happened during "Tambov rebellion" when russian peasants resisted the forced confiscation of grain by Red Army.
7rRBx TIL Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall) battled cancer while filming the last Harry Potter movie because she didn’t want to disappoint fans
j68dX TIL for the first 2 years after Marla Gibbs got cast on The Jeffersons, she kept her job as a reservations agent at United Airlines. She would work at the CBS television studio during the day and then go to United Airlines, where she worked the night shift.
5Y8rD TIL of Justo Gallego Martinez, a 90+ year old man who built a cathedral for the last 60 decades using only scrap material he could find near the building site
EgOGd TIL a man named Charles Steinlauf invented a four person bicycle that his family used. It also included a place for his wife to operate her sewing machine while they went for a ride.