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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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4xp5 TIL that President Harry S. Truman commanded an artillery battery in WW1 in the US Army, and under his command, ‘Battery D did not lose a single man in France.’
WkMXN TIL a Japanese sushi chain CEO majorly contributed to a drop in piracy off the Somalian coast by providing the pirates with training as tuna fishermen
oB4Br TIL Bhutan is the world's only carbon negative country. The constitution demands at least 60% of the country covered in forest, making it a sink of over four million tonnes of CO2 per year.
lo6EK TIL that during the Mariner 4 Mars mission in 1964, the scientists were so eager to see the first ever close up images of another planet that they printed out the numerical data and hand colored it with crayons instead of waiting for a processed image.
M7xQK TIL that not only were HP Lovecraft and Harry Houdini good friends, Lovecraft wrote a short story "Under the Pyramids" starring Houdini as a man character.