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TIL, while investigating the behavior of web hyperlinks that you drag and drop onto textboxes, that water treatment plants have re-carbonization and sludge lagoons. Also, I'm not sure that all of this should even be public, considering the ramifications when these things are compromised. ISMO.

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GYrgJ TIL Marilyn Monroe got chin surgery because she overheard someone call her “a chinless wonder” at a party, behind her back.
pXOG TIL actor Gary Busey had been an outspoken opponent of helmet laws before his own motorcycle accident, but than changed sides and said: “If you don’t wear a helmet, you’re not playing with a full deck.”
wLoao TIL: Mercury was required for felting fabrics, especially hats. Hatters in the 1800’s had chronic mercury toxicity that caused mental instability thus dubbing the term “mad hatters disease” or “mad as a hatter”- and was the primary plight that Louis Carroll developed the mad hatter character around.
QJd1X TIL 11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.
8aGL8 TIL about the Tenerife Airport Disaster when, on a day in which there was fog heavy enough to reduce visibility to less than 500 yards, two Boeing 747s had a head-on collision at the runway that resulted in 583 casualties and the deadliest accident in aviation history.