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TIL Wisconsin residents can request any of their elected officials be recalled from their position after a year and have to run for office again.

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OGgG4 TIL historians don't know why important warlord Ivar the Boneless was called "boneless." Theories range from him losing a leg to impotence & beyond.
m4lx TIL That Oda Nobunaga was so disrespectful at his own father’s funeral that one of his mentors committed seppuku
R5ar4 TIL 18% of adults with asthma smoke, compared to 13.6% of adults without asthma
5VdJR TIL that the scientific definition of a Kilogram uses the Planck constant(which gives the relationship between energy/mass and frequency of a photon) in its formula. Pg131
wdlY TIL that one day in 1880, three men from Arkansas, searching for a wildcat, stumbled on a mysterious cave whose inside was covered in a radiant blue color. The three men immediately fell ill and were covered in sores after leaving the cave. They had discovered the first radium mine in America.