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TIL oil companies in Alberta’s tar sands use more water in a year than the entire city of Toronto, pay nothing for it, and don’t clean it up

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x6Jlk TIL after a typhoon severely damaged the USS Hornet, the carrier attacked Japanese forces by launching airplanes over her stern while in reverse.
QL0k TIL that after Ted Kaczynski’s brother David received a $1 million reward for helping bring the Unibomber to justice, he promptly dispersed the funds to survivors of his brother’s bombs, after paying legal fees. He now runs a Buddhist monastery in New York state.
7r7RM TIL that Leopold Amery, Winston Churchill's own Secretary of State for India, wrote in his private diaries, "on the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane" and that he didn't "see much difference between [Churchill's] outlook and Hitler's."
8aBjP TIL that in the UK you are legally required to stop if you run over a dog, but not a cat.
MM40 TIL The Albuquerque Isotopes minor league baseball team was actually named after the baseball team in The Simpsons