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TIL Dippin’ Dots established a subsidiary focused on freezing, pelletizing, transporting, and storing microbiological materials

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oRNEL TIL, 14-year-old Caleb Rebh accidentally choked himself to death while working as a scare actor after he had tied a noose around his neck to appear more scarier. While Caleb was struggling to untie the rope from his neck, no one helped him because they thought he was acting.
nwLo TIL haggis is illegal in the US because one of its key ingredients is sheep lungs.
QJ5GE TIL that in 1987 Matthew Broderick was driving in Ireland in a rental car when he veered onto the wrong side of the road, striking the vehicle of Anna Gallagher, 28 and her mother Margaret Doherty, 63 killing both. His punishment was an $175 fine.
pY67A TIL Andrew Johnson showed up wasted to his own vice presidential inaguration. Witnesses described his speech as "hostile, inane, incoherent, repetitive, self-aggrandizing, and sloppy", and he kissed the Bible he was to swear an oath on
X0KM6 TIL that Woodcutter ants (among other species of ants) use their dead to cultivate, or "farm" fungi/mushrooms, that they then harvest and eat.