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TIL Nestle pays only $2.25 to bottle and sell a million liters of water

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VMyRG Researchers have found fossils they say determine almost conclusively that every penguin on Earth originally came from modern-day New Zealand.
0KmA TIL Billie Thomas who played Buckwheat in the 1930s Little Rascals, went on to the Army and was award the National Defense Service Medal and Good Conduct Medal. He never acted again.
PO4G TIL during World War II, Polish doctors Stanislaw Matulewicz and Eugeniusz Lazowski infected Jews with a microbe Proteus OX19, which exhibits symptoms of typhus, which lead Nazi doctors to quarantine and stop deportations in fear of infecting Nazi troops, thus saving thousands of lives.
Km4B TIL even though statues from Ancient Egypt portray pharaohs as thin and healthy, archaeological evidence (analysis of mummies) reveals that most of them were diabetic, had heart disease and had bad teeth due to having a diet rich in sugar.
neRGo TIL that French President Charles De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt due to the bullet being stopped by the frame of the photograph of his daughter Anne that he always carried with him. Anne had downs syndrome and died 14 years earlier at the age of 20