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TIL FDA guidelines allow bottled water to be labeled as artesian, groundwater, distilled, deionized, reverse osmosis, mineral, purified, sparkling, spring and/or sterile

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j6xLv TIL the word “Ghetto” is Italian in origin. From the Venetian Ghetto, the area of Venice in which Jews were forced to live by the government.
b9DOZ TIL, the kid's play arcade Discovery Zone merged it's assets with Leaps And Bounds in the year 1995, and also found out that Leaps and Bounds was a McDonald's subsidiary too.
Lk1r TIL the average human being normally does not swallow any spiders in their lifetime, contrary to popular belief of eight spiders per year.
1aB0d TIL Matt Damon started writing Good Will Hunting (1997) as a final assignment for a playwriting class he was taking at Harvard University. At first, it was written as a thriller about a young man who possesses a superior intelligence and is targeted by the government with heavy-handed recruitment.
kOAw4 TIL on 1 May 1950 Mosinee, WI staged a communist take over where the mayor was dragged from his bed and "surrendered". The excitement caused him to have a heart attack, killing him 5 days later. The local minister also died after showing how he would hide a Bible from communists in a church organ.