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TIL Janicki Omniprocessor Can Turn Human Waste Into Drinking Water

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gbX4 TIL that HMS Erebus, part of Franklin expedition lost for nearly 170 years was found near the island called in Inuit language “The big boat sank here” (14:30 in podcast)
yVx8 TIL That the all of the water in Great Basin, which covers a large portion of the western US, never flows out.
94Dm TIL the vibrator was “the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.”
Ww7L TIL on Google News you can search and read old print newspapers, going as far back as 1752
mxVoY TIL about James Reavis, also known as "The Baron of Arizona," who almost swindled the U.S. government out of the entirety of Arizona. He forged numerous papers in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. to prove that he "inherited" the land from a fictional family