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TIL that Windhoek, Namibia has been using Direct Potable Reuse (treated and filtered sewage becomes drinking water) for decades, and is the only city in the world to do so.

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DkOV TIL that Anonymous chose the Guy Fawkes mask out of practicality and not for its meaning; it was the only mask readily available worldwide for their 2008 protest against Scientology.
oBJ0A TIL The TV series 'Hannibal' had a shot of a naked flayed couple. NBC thought this was unacceptable because their buttcracks were fully visible. The director offered to fill their buttcracks with blood to make it less offensive. NBC agreed.
J1yxV TIL of A.J Weberman. A controversial Dylanologist who has been calling for Bob Dylan to return back to his early counterculture era unsuccessfully for 54 years and counting. His behaviour eventually lead to Bob Dylan assaulting him in 1971. AJ also believe many of Dylan’s songs are about Him.
LkXW9 TIL, once a jockey died half way around the track in a race, but his horse finished first making him the first man ever to win a horse race while dead.
kMB5 TIL that The Arab slave trade typically dealt in the sale of castrated male slaves. Black boys between the age of 8 and 12 had their scrotums and penises completely amputated to prevent them from reproducing. About six of every 10 boys bled to death during the procedure.