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TIL, about the Great Wisconsin Butter Fire in which a storage facility for overstock meat and dairy products caught fire and burned for 8 days. The melting butter caused environmental concerns as according to the EPA 'butter spills have similar effects on wildlife to petroleum-based oil spills'

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rLVw TIL that the “Red Zone” in France, where some of the most intense combat from WW1 took place, is utterly uninhabitable. Countless undetonated chemical weapons and explosives riddle the earth which, along with the tons of human remains, have rendered the soil and water highly toxic.
wLVP8 TIL that microwaving grapes will cause them to produce and discharge plasma.
Ooe6 TIL that Robert A. Heinlein developed the concept for the waterbed.
R79Yl TIL: National Pizza Month observance began in October 1984, and was created by Gerry Durnell, the publisher of Pizza Today magazine.
mnAp TIL the only compromise for censoring the cover of Nevermind that Kurt Cobain would accept was a sticker covering the baby’s penis that would say, “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile.”