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TIL Worcestershire sauce was created by accident when a less than desirable sauce was forgotten and left to ferment in a cellar

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a8DPM TIL about Washington D. C.'s Height of Buildings Act of 1899 - still in effect. New technologies in construction were allowing for taller buildings but people were afraid of what they didn't understand. Also, fire fighting equipment, at this time, could only reach a maximum height of 130 feet.
woKDJ TIL the massive decimation of native populations in the Americas in the 1500s led to vast areas of cultivated land reverting to wilderness. This reforestation in turn contributed to a period of global cooling known as the "Little Ice Age"
9wBwB TIL in 2015, a woman's parachute failed to deploy while skydiving, surviving with life-threatening injuries. Days before, she survived a mysterious gas leak at her house. Both were later found to be intentional murder plots by her husband.
ZpD5G TIL about a man who was rescued by a sea lion after he tried to kill himself by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge
OG8E6 TIL that Rio de Janeiro gets the same hours of sun per year as Seattle