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TIL between 2004-2009, the Clean Water Act was violated more than 506,000 times, by more than 23,000 companies and other facilities. 40% of the nation’s community water systems violated the act at least once.

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VMGNG TIL A Photographer Died Protecting His Film During the 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption
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MnkA TIL Pornhub and Youporn will begin offering HTTPS encryption by default to fight against ISPs being able to sell your browsing history.
VMQ84 TIL that fake Christmas trees were invented by a company that made toilet brushes and were made on the same machinery.
wolQ6 TIL General George S. Patton saved several children from drowning when they fell off a yacht during a boating trip off Salem, Massachusetts in 1923. He was a still a major at that time and was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for this action.