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Are hotel pools safe? Poop germs in treated water can still make you sick, a new CDC report says.

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b9lx9 TIL that on D Day the crew of the Battleship USS Texas intentionally flooded a torpedo tube in order to cause a 2 degree list, giving their main guns just enough extra elevation to boost their range & hit the target on the mainland.
4Xj9N TIL, Ming-Na Wen who is well known for role as Dr. Jing-Mei Chen in ER, was pregnant with her first child in 2000. As a result, she continued to act and her pregnancy was written into the E.R. script, with her character giving up the child for adoption, following her child's birth on November 2000.
xVQ9D TIL the sixth child of ancient roman families were often named Sextus, a praenomen (or in this case, name) meaning "sixth" in Latin
7rl4L TIL George Lucas's original name for Yoda was... Buffy