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TIL, Wisconsin uses briny water from cheese production to de-ice their roads in winter.

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epvvg TIL U.S. Senator Daniel Sickles was acquitted of murder in 1859 after killing his wife’s lover—by using the first successful temporary insanity defence in U.S. legal history.
deJr TIL: Spiders like listening to classical music, according to research at Miami University. When listening to techno and rap, they made their webs as far away from the speaker as possible, but when listening to Bach, they made their webs as near to the speaker as possible
6EYDZ TIL in April 1989, 96 people died during a football match at Hillsborough football ground in Sheffield, Yorkshire
GYOBQ TIL that the Taipan, an extremely venomous Australian snake, wasnt caught alive until 1950, and the person who caught it was killed by the snake nonetheless.
Eg9vo TIL that Granula was the first manufactured breakfast cereal, invented by James Caleb Jackson in 1863. Not to be confused with Granola, which was later created by John Kellog, and renamed as Grape-Nuts to avoid being sued by Jackson.