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Today I Learned that you can buy water bottled in Flint Michigan - its sold as a novelty, and not considered safe for human consumption.

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via reddit.com

lov5K TIL that during a London Cholera outbreak, workers at local brewery near the outbreak were saved because they only drank beer, which protected them from the infected water.
waVE TIL in 1962, a man named Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval Officer, cast a single vote that prevented a nuclear attack on the US Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis and is credited for preventing a thermonuclear World War 3.
v1QNR TIL March 26, 2020, had the lowest movie theater ticket sales in history, at a total of $24 (as opposed to 2019, with $17,294,351 in sales)
D1o7e TIL about Deep Springs College, a two year, ~26 student college located on a rural California ranch. Tuition is free but students are expected to work on the farm year-round, isolated from all technology and society.
vP1aD Today I learned that the same generic drugs produced by different pharmaceutical companies have different effects dependent on the filler ingredients.