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TIL the expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not the water.

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yk8e TIL that Haiti, cholera free for > 100 years, suffered an extreme outbreak after Nepalese UN relief workers dumped raw sewage into a stream. Hundreds of thousands sickened, around 10,000 dead and cholera is now endemic in the nation.
0JMv TIL that a German historian believes that the years 614-911 AD didn’t happen and we are actually living in the year 1716.
loAa TIL there are four major countries that face population decline in the next 40 years: Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia. Russia’s population is expected to fall 22% by 2050.
1MMW TIL The United States Defense Budget of $698 Billion is More Than the Next Seventeen Nations Combined
ANkvx TIL Mountain Gorillas almost never drink water. They get their hydration from from their plant diet and morning dew. Despite living in rainforests, they also tend to dislike rain and try to not get wet when crossing a stream. They have never been observed drinking water in the wild before 2013