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TIL that Memphis, the #2 worst city in America, has the cleanest and sweetest water in the entire world; it is so clean that it is even used to make vaccines because it requires very little purification.

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MeOxa TIL Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported garbage from other countries to keep its recycling plants going.
e0Xn TIL in 1978 Charlie Chaplin’s dead body was stolen from the cemetery where he was buried. The body was recovered after 3 months and then re-buried in a vault surrounded by cement.
loM9A TIL the Heaven's Gate cult was covered by a niche insurance policy that would pay out $1 Million per person if they were abducted, impregnated, or killed by aliens.
LkwRZ TIL that every single actress who has won an Academy Award has played a character working in the sex trade industry. 95% played prostitutes, while about 5% played someone working in or related to the sex trade industry.
Mo0K TIL: The Canadian government staged a large-scale Nazi invasion of Winnipeg in 1942 to promote war bonds: citizens were arrested at random, armed “German” troops searched cars and buses, businesses were raided for supplies and Union flags were torn down and replaced with the flag of the Nazi Party.