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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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Bg1vW TIL Oakum, tarred fibre used for caulking, was recycled from old tarred rope by prison labor. A man sentenced to hard labor would be expected to pick apart 6 pounds of rope into Oakum per day.
O6ng TIL Beethoven, after the first performance of Symphony No. 9, had to be turned around to receive the audience’s roaring applause due to his near complete deafness.
9YaNG TIL James Taylor's song "Country Road" was inspired by Somerset Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, a wooded road running adjacent to the land owned by McLean Hospital where Taylor had committed himself in 1965 to receive treatment for depression
X01yX TIL Stilton cheese cannot be legally produced in the village of Stilton.
VM1wD TIL of early French socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) who believed in the future, under his system people would grow tails and live 144 years, as well as there being "anti-lions", which would be friendly and pacifistic.