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TIL 77 million Americans are served by water systems that violate testing requirements or rules about contamination in drinking water

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5YnP TIL that the reason the Toronto Maple Leafs are not called the Maple “Leaves” is that the name was chosen in honour of the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War I. As the regiment is a proper noun, its plural is Maple Leafs (not Maple Leaves).
8aAY4 TIL In 1972, Neil Armstrong visited the town of Langholm, Scotland. In which he was read a 400 year old law declaring any Armstrong caught in the town should be hanged
yDRv TIL: While attempting to gather blood for testing from a frozen mammoth the blood was found in ice cavities. When the cavities were broken the blood came running out.
9pgr TIL: More Americans killed by falling T.V’s than by terrorist attacks
wo6EM TIL that Kentucky, not one of the original 13 colonies of the United States, was the last state to get both a star and a stripe added to the flag. Vermont and Kentucky were given both a star and a stripe to the flag as the 14th and 15th states admitted into the Union. This remained until 1818.