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TIL Wisconsin uses cheese brine as a melting agent on their roads!

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LQOwd TIL there’s types of wasps that hijack the growth process of a tree’s leaves to make it grow a home for their larvae
j6NyN TIL that Alice Munro, co-founder of a bookstore with her then-husband Jim, started writing after reading some of the store's stock and thinking "I can write better books than this." In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
D1awD TIL in 1934, Swiss banking secrecy laws were strengthened to encourage Jews of Central & Eastern Europe, fearful of Nazis, to hide their assets in Swiss banks. After a majority of those depositors died during the Holocaust, the laws were used to wrongfully deny their heirs access to those accounts
BrYxK TIL the typical American household has an average of $8,863 in their savings account. This varies greatly by age though, with ages 34 and younger who are single having $2,729, while ages 75 and older who are single only having $9,981.
9YxdG TIL that the guy who invented the koosh ball , invented it because his own child was having trouble catching a ball