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TIL Bernie Madoff cornered the prison market on Swiss Miss hot chocolate

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oBVBo TIL Skin from the Tilapia fish is used to treat burn victims in Brazil. The treatment proved to be effective enough that veterinarians across California used The fish skin to treat the animals that were burned during the wildfires
awRON TIL that when the chimpanzee Sami escaped from the Belgrade Zoo for the second time in less than a week, thousands of people cheered him on.
Brmwx TIL The US had a president born in every decade from 1730s-1940s, except 2: 1810s and 1930s
WJZX TIL humans aren’t appropriate prey for great white sharks because their digestion is too slow to cope with the high ratio of bone to muscle and fat.
epExJ TIL in 1912 Republican presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette gave a speech to a group of 500 journalists in which he berated the group as being corrupt and working with the trusts. The group was shocked and thought he had a mental breakdown; a friend quipped he’d “killed himself politically.”