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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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b189 TIL the only photos taken at the moment Robert Kennedy was shot were seized by the LAPD, ordered sealed for 20 years, and when finally set to be released were stolen from the car of the courier transporting them
4XXER TIL "The Cosmic Sequence" is a set of numbers starting with 3 cubed, which pythagoras said "represents the cosmos". It seems he was onto something.
e0v0k TIL of the Hymn Virus. A Virus from 1990 that would brick MS-DOS computers and played the Soviet National Anthem.
lgdV TIL that in 1945 Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.