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TIL Cher donated 180,000 bottles of water to Flint after their water was discovered unsafe due to lead contamination.

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Nx4Q TIL 1 in 18 males and 1 in 50 females have extra nipples.
6EJOw TIL many people in ancient Europe believed in the existence of vegetable lambs that grew as plants in Asia and had blood and flesh like an animal. The legend comes from the cotton plant, which was unknown in Europe
j6xbQ TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed.
wlj1 TIL although close friends who collaborated on four hugely successful films, after the filming of ‘Groundhog Day’, Bill Murray refused to speak to writer/director Harold Ramis until on his deathbed in 2014
wPvP TIL that 97% of Quebec, Canada’s electricity comes from hydroelectric dams. This cheap, clean, source of electricity provides $billions in annual profit to government, and has had a “near mythical” role in the province’s economic development.