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TIL almost 90% of Israeli wastewater is purified and used in irrigation, four times more than any other country.

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4keKo TIL: In 2023, the St. Hubert restaurant chain in eastern Canada implemented measures to make their restaurants more welcoming to autistic people by allowing customers to request sensory accomodations in advance.
kOYAm TIL that Georgia's state dog is any "Adoptable dog"
p8bE8 TIL that Simpsons episode where Krustyburger nearly goes bankrupt from giving out free burgers when USA won gold medals is based on fact, and this actually happened with McDonald's when the USSR boycotted the 1984 games
7B47 TIL Google has been interested in becoming a wireless carrier like Verizon and AT&T since 2012.
rROpx TIL Walter Jackson Freeman II, creator of the "icepick" lobotomy, performed as many as 4,000 surgeries in 23 states despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. Up to 40% of Freeman's patients were gay individuals subjected to a lobotomy in order to change their homosexual orientation.