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TIL as much as 40 percent of bottled water in the United States comes from public water supplies yet costs up to 2000 time more

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xODB TIL in 1983, a 19-year-old named George shot himself in the head in an attempt to end his battle with OCD. Instead of killing him, the bullet ended up destroying the part of his brain that controlled the obsessive behavior, curing the OCD.
BrW1x TIL that Larry Flynt has sent a monthly copy of Hustler to every congressional office since 1983, and members of Congress can't stop receiving the magazines—because a court agreed that it was within Flynt's right to petition the government under the First Amendment.
yVNjM TIL: Serial Killer Albert Fish, an extreme masochist, enjoyed lighting his anus on fire and filling it with needles. When he was arrested he had more than 29 needles permanently lodged in his pelvic area.
0dMgL TIL that Salvador Dali's famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" was only about the size of a sheet of office paper.
xVD1k TIL of the Octopus Stinkhorn. The fungus erupts from the egg by forming into four to seven elongated slender arms. The arms unfold to reveal a pinkish-red interior covered with a dark-olive spore-containing gleba. In maturity it smells like putrid flesh.