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Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.

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rR7X0 TIL Benjamin Franklin said "In 1736 I lost one of my sons... by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that operation..."
KDV4 TIL that suburban neighborhoods were made to prevent people of being Communists. William Levitt, father of modern American suburbia declared: “No one who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
RBK7 TIL that Charlie Sheen once bought 2,615 tickets to a Major League Baseball game so he could improve his odds of catching a home run ball
GW5N TIL Bruce Lee carried a .357 magnum everywhere once he became famous as the guy no one could beat in a fight
P1kdE TIL In 1949 Oregon state senator Dean Walker tried to ban popcorn from movie theaters.