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TIL some US states have restrictions on collecting rainwater, while other states encourage it

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wLQDE TIL that musician Moby claimed in his second memoir to have been in a relationship with actress Natalie Portman when she was 18. Portman denied it, saying “my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school.” Moby canceled his book tour and apologized.
jNdjn TIL George Stathakis went down Niagara Falls in a barrel. However, the barrel got stuck behind a curtain of water and he could not be recovered for 18 hours. He only had air supply for eight hours and died of suffocation. Stathakis went down with his 150 year old turtle, which survived the ordeal.
VM4O0 TIL that professor Farnsworth from Futurama is named after the man who invented television.
oBlno TIL: U.S. pharmaceutical companies are not legally required to reveal in what countries their products are manufactured
e0EMJ TIL about the Phytosaurs, an order of reptiles that went extinct at the end of the Triassic. Despite not being closely related, they looked and behaved very similarly to modern crocodilians, in a remarkable example of convergent evolution.