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TIL Halls Cough drops are seen as candy in warmer parts of the world.

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8aBdK TIL in California all DUI convicts are made to sign “The Watson Admonishment”, which forces them to acknowledge the danger of DUI. If you are the cause of fatal DUI after signing this you are charged with murder rather than manslaughter.
160Ld TIL it takes three months to clean the windows of the Burj Khalifa, and it's done four times a year, so the 36-man team's process never stops.
W99B TIL There is an open-source social networking and sharing platform that is decentralized like TOR, has distributed file sharing like BitTorrent, and is “hardly possible to monitor from an external point of view”. It also has built in VoIP for voice chat.
YpBWr TIL about Grain Entrapment. Large quantities of grain stored in places like silos will suddenly shift and may trap people caught in their motion. In 2010 alone this resulted in 26 deaths in American farms.
1joW TIL Charles Darwin married his first cousin with whom he had ten children. Three died as infants and three were infertile. He was the first to raise the question if incest may cause weaknesses in offspring after studying inbred plants in his garden.