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TIL from 2014 to 2019 Flint, Michigan was exposed to contaminated water, leaving 12000 children exposed to lead, 79 lawsuits, 12 deaths, 4 firings, 4 resignations, and one conviction in which the convicted was given just one-year probation.

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jPMM TIL in parts of Cambodia people have made their own trains out of bamboo after regular services stopped running.
6E11W TIL that Robin Hood being of noble birth and loyal to Richard Lionheart are relatively recent additions to the mythos, and in his earliest stories he was very devoted to the Virgin Mary while also being very anti-clerical.
xVDGD TIL that the digestive biscuit is so popular in the UK, that an average of 70 of them are consumed there each second.
KEW9 TIL Ben Franklin made a list of 250 synonyms for being drunk in 1737. This list became very popular to show off in pubs at the time.
Yy8W TIL a cave in France has the footprints of an 8- to 10-year-old boy left in the mud 26,000 years ago alongside the paw prints of either a wolf or a large dog, the oldest evidence of human/canine relationships ever found.