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TIL The Weber Grill, a kettle grill design popularized in the 1950s, was first designed by a salesman at a metal works company. Looking for a way to protect food he was grilling from wind, he repurposed metal buoys his company was making to make a covered grill.

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j64Ja TIL The most serious attempt at secession was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as 11 Southern states each declared secession from the United States, and joined to form the Confederate States of America, a procedure and body that the government of the United States refused to accept.
L8YQ TIL Alabama has one of the most diverse ecosystems in North America, and is known as “America’s Amazon”.
R5p91 TIL the first human to recieve Streptomycin, the cure for tuberculosis, was future Presidential nominee Bob Dole
69BRW TIL that there are around 10^10^23.1 different 0 and 1 combinations in the entire internet as of 2020, a number with more than 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 digits.
e0x6k TIL that River Phoenix was good friends with the former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers John Frusciante and that they spent the last few days of River’s life together on a drug binge.