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TIL that grain dust can cause explosions.

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4kexN TIL in 1893, John Nance Garner won the election for county judge of Uvalde County, Texas against Mariette "Ettie" Rheiner. The electoral opponents then started dating and married in 1895. John Garner would go on to serve as U.S. Vice President from 1933 to 1941.
QGyE TIL Nintendo owns the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball Franchise
DQOJv TIL People sometimes resort to amputating limbs to prevent the spread of infection. Woodworm ants, specifically C. floridanus, have also been observed to do this. They will gnaw off an injured leg of a fellow ant in order to save the other ant's life.
v1W4B TIL of the insane degree of Convergent Evolution of life on Earth. There is a multitude of cases in which species have adapted to environments by Evolving almost identical body plans and strategies.
KO5ME TIL that the treadmill was first introduced as a Prison Rehabilitation Device, meant to cause the incarcerated to suffer and learn from their sweat. When Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years in prison in 1895, he was forced to use a treadmill as part of his punishment.