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TIL Brainwashing is largely myth, and is not accepted within mainstream science.

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PmkV TIL that Windhoek, Namibia has been using Direct Potable Reuse (treated and filtered sewage becomes drinking water) for decades, and is the only city in the world to do so.
E11ed Everything scientists know suggests that this little creature is immortal.
XEob8 TIL that Stefan Banach got his PhD by being tricked into taking an exam by a group of professors. He was led to believe that he was just discussing some math problems with random mathematicians.
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YW9B TIL that after their only son died at the age of 15, Leland Stanford founded Stanford University and told his wife that “the children of California shall be our children.”