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TIL: Wisconsin has several “Seed Libraries” where people can “check out” seeds to grow and then “return” them after harvest.

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ep7K6 TIL "Children" by Robert Miles was a "dream trance" record aimed at reducing car accidents in 1990s Italy. With more clubbers falling asleep at the wheel after nights of dancing, drinking and drugs, DJs began playing records like "Children" to calm crowds down before sending them home.
Oa0L TIL that in the wake of the Civil War, some Confederate sympathizers fled the United States and founded colonies in Mexico and South America. Several thousand Southerners chose to settle in Brazil, where they established small villages with names like “Americana” and “New Texas.”
yVn6a TIL Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, an encyclopedia of navigation, has been in print since 1802. It is so popular that it's colloquially referred to after it's original author "Bowditch". In 1867 the US government bought the copyright and has published 52 editions of it since then.
1vaW TIL it only takes a gallon of fuel to move 1 ton of material 500 miles by rail.
WkwV9 TIL China used more cement in three years — between 2011 and 2013 — than the US did in the entire 20th century.