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TIL in 2010 the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was deployed to Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake, and provided the island with 200,000 gallons a day of fresh drinking water from its desalination plants.

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091p TIL It’s completely legal for women to walk around topless in New York State
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