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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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0gJp TIL in 1998, when a teacher smelled a ‘gas-like’ odor in her classroom she soon developed headache, nausea, short breath, and dizziness. Hours later, 80 kids and 19 staff were in the ER. However, no illness or poison was found in anyone; it was believed to be a mass psychogenic delusional illness.
oBm9W TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.
XENWP TIL that turkeys were not brought to Europe until 1550. The popular image of a medieval king feasting on a large turkey leg is an anachronism.
4KAg TIL the remainder of the Pentagon Papers (docs leaked in 1971 which demonstrated that the US gov’t systematically misled the public about the Vietnam War) were fully declassified in 2011 and are now freely available online
N7Y1e TIL: With Aliens (1986), Sigourney Weaver received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and although she did not win, it was considered a landmark nomination for an actress to be considered for a science-fiction/horror film, a genre which previously was given little recognition