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

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yQ5va TIL the first use of the word “selfie” in print was in 2002 when an Australian student posted a picture of his split lip after a drunken party. “Sorry about the focus, it was a selfie,” he wrote on an online forum.
gMbe7 TIL Some chipmunks eat frogs and baby birds.
awrey TIL that nearly half the states in the US allow village and town judges to hold office without a law degree. In NY, these judges aren't even required to have a degree of any kind and can preside over criminal cases.
xVBv5 TIL that Charging Bull, the famous statue on Wall Street, was installed secretly and illegally outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 following the 1987 stock market crash. The sculpture was seized and impounded by NYPD, but re-installed two blocks south of the Exchange after a public outcry.
Dr1r TIL that ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves