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TIL tha sewage water gets treated and "cleaned" and get re-used in agriculture and sometimes in some areas of the world, it becomes drinkable...🤢

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9wZxM TIL that early European railroads locked passengers in train cars. Doing so ended in France after the Versailles rail accident of 1842 killed up to 200 people, who could not escape when a derailment and crash caused a fire.
PgdZ TIL that the white suicide rate is almost as high as the black homicide rate. Also, the black suicide rate is far lower.
mxZBE TIL there is an island called Disappointment Island. It's uninhabited, but home to over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross. In 1868, a steel tanker crashed there and 68 people died, while the remaining 15 waited 18 months to be rescued. In 1907, another ship crashed there and 12 men drowned.
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