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TIL if you tie a plastic bag around leaves on a tree you’ll get enough drinkable water to keep you from dehydration

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R7beQ TIL a man committed a perfect crime and was caught anyway. While in jail, he investigated how this was possible and discovered a secret new surveillance device the government developed.
vPB57 TIL in the book that 101 Dalmatians was based on, there were 4 adult Dalmatians and 97 puppies instead of 2 adults and 99 puppies. While two of the adult dogs were named Pongo and Perdita, they weren't mates with each other but with two dogs named "Missis" and "Prince", both absent from the film.
baM7 TIL the 1981 sex comedy Porky’s is the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time with slightly over $111 million
nW4A9 TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete
O8L7 TIL Channel 4 carried out investigative journalism in several UK mosque and uncovered that most have regular lectures condoning violence, raping children and alienation. Islamic organization’s response was that it was racist for broadcasters to film them.