› added 10 years ago

78

TIL the Environmental Protection Agency regulations for tap water are “actually stricter than the Food and Drug Administration regulations for bottled water.”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Y7eWP TIL about the Diomede Islands - Big Diomede is in Russian territory, Little Diomede is in the U.S. They're just 2 miles apart, but due to the International Date Line, Big Diomede is 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede.
xVWp0 TIL: During the filming of The 3 Stooges second anti-Nazi comedy film "I'll Never Heil Again", Moe Howard has rushed from the set wearing his "Hitleresque" costume to get to his daughter's birthday party. Bystanders have reported that Hitler was running red lights to the LAPD.
nrRY TIL that in 2011 only 4 hate crimes were comitted against atheists in the united states, lower than any other hate crime motivated by religious bias and none of them were comitted against people
GAKdG TIL that the character of John Rambo, was originally inspired by Audie Murphy and his struggles with PTSD.
ep7MD TIL that owls and eagles hate each other.They will fight and kill each other and this had been going on since 36 million years.