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TIL during droughts, California prohibits companies from bottling too much water. Nestlé went around this by buying a massive water plant inside an Indian reservation (officially considered a sovereign nation) that doesn't have to comply with state water regulations.

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d8dBB TIL that spending just a few months in Antartica can shrink your brain due to environmental monotony and prolonged isolation
dv09 TIL scorpions are incredibly resilient. Scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
loyPG TIL Henry Heimlich, the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, has a son, Peter, who is devoted to exposing him as a serial liar and con artist. Peter says his father paid off the study that persuaded the American Red Cross to change its response to choking to Heimlich's.
QNnjp TIL that from 1998-99, when Total Request Live's #1 song changed, 55 of those times it was from a Backstreet Boys song to an N Sync song or vice versa
kO7g5 TIL in an experiment, an American Cockroach registered a record speed of 5.4 km/h (3.4 mph), about 50 body lengths per second, which would be comparable to a human running at 330 km/h (210 mph).