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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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E1NkX TIL Handel composed Messiah in an interlude, somewhere between three and four weeks in August and September 1741. "He would literally write from morning to night". Mozart confessed himself to be humble in the face of Handel's genius
Nxl1 TIL A breed of dog called the Komondor was bred to guard sheep because its dreadlocks are too thick for wolves’ to bite through, and because it looks like a sheep.
E17Pd TIL that even though humans are quite numerous inhabitants of the earth, we are outnumbered by chickens by a bit more than 3 times and we are still rapidly increasing their numbers.
5Y7ND TIL Kleptothermy (heat-stealing) is observed in some male Canadian red sided garter snakes that mimic females by producing female-like pheromones when they emerge from hibernation so that other males mistakenly attempt to mate with them, thus transferring heat to them.
OGNR TIL Senior PETA VP, Mary Beth Sweetland, takes insulin for diabetes (a product of animal testing) yet, like PETA, vigorously opposes all animal testing.