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TIL margarine was illegal in Wisconsin until 1967. Before that, Wisconsinites would sometimes smuggle in margarine from the south.

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jxrN TIL that after Rep. Paul Broun made comments saying that evolution, the Big Bang, and embryology were “straight from the Pit of Hell”, 4000 people in his district voted for Charles Darwin as a write-in.
r8Le TIL after being struck by lightning, golfer Lee Trevino was asked if he would do anything different to avoid it. “I’d stand in the fairway with my one iron pointed at the sky,” he said. “Not even God can hit the one iron.”
VNNQ TIL the Green Bay Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States.
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