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TIL Dasani sources water from municipal pool water in some California locations

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dDMAd TIL of the Storegga tsunami, a tsunami that struck the North Sea in 6000 BC submerging an area of land the size of MD
b6kDa TIL that during WWII, the U.S. Army designed a grenade to be the same size and weight as a baseball, making it easier for American soldiers to throw.
78wGM TIL that more than half of all light mail in Denmark is delivered by bike. Due to the general city infrastructure, bikes are by far the easiest and quickest way to deliver letters in Denmark
ne8JW TIL that Plato’s name is actually a nickname that means ‘broad’. It was given to him on account of his handsome, robust and well-built figure while he wrestled under the tutelage of Ariston of Argos.
R74G9 TIL an MIT researcher was concerned about the censorship of human genitalia on extraterrestrial messages, so he recorded & transmitted the sound of ballerinas' vaginas contracting. The Air Force terminated the project, but test messages made it to two nearby stars in 1996 & 1998.