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TIL Disney abandoned plans for a park in Virginia. Opposition groups complained it would cause suburban sprawl, create "fast food strips" and invite malls. Today the area is a suburb of million-dollar golf course homes, a mall, and a strips of fast food stores.

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jGWQ TIL that John L. Leal was put on trial for adding sodium hypochlorite - chlorine’s predecessor and considered poisonous - into the water supply of a chemophobic Jersey City in 1908, but was vindicated after the move practically eradicated typhoid.
P1OGZ TIL in Japan, by law, a workday becomes an additional holiday, also known as a "citizen's holiday," if the workday falls between two holidays.
nJWG TIL that Jews account for 20% of all Nobel Prize laureates, despite being only 0.2% of the world’s population.
mMZY TIL it’s a common misconception that PG-13 films are only allowed one “F-bomb,” and that 2 or more make it R. This isn’t true, as a movie with multiple uses of the word can still be PG-13 if the board votes that way with a 2/3 majority. (See page 8, top)
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