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TIL that all restaurants in Wisconsin were required by law to serve cheese and butter with every meal from 1935 to 1937.

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9wWn7 TIL percentages are reversible. Hence, 6% of 50 is equal to 50% of 6, which is much easier to calculate.
njJ9 TIL A Microsoft researcher has come up with a great algorithm to depixel pixelart.
Z8Dev TIL that roughly one out of every three socks you wear was made in a place known as “Sock City”. A small Chinese village in the 1980s it has grown to employ over 100,000 people and produces 8 billion socks a year.
GYly1 TIL of Baby Nancy, a girl who died shortly after birth. Her father, an officer on the USS Utah, brought her ashes aboard with the plan to bury her at sea. During the Japanese attack, he escaped the ship but could not rescue Nancy's ashes, and they are still in his locker to this day.
gMEQb TIL Primatology pioneer Dian Fossey, determined to save the nearly-extinct Mountain Gorillas waged a war against poachers: she led armed patrols, burned their huts, arrested and placed bounties on poachers and convinced the locals that she practiced black magic, in order to scare them away