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

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EZX TIL Nuclear power has 4,000 times fewer deaths per watt produced than coal.
7rGEP TIL that at a point, breathing in Delhi, India was equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes a day.
BomL TIL USSR’s first long-range bomber, the Tu-4, was such an exact copy of a confiscated American B-29 that it even featured a repair patch on its fuselage where the original plane had been damaged.
gMOL TIL the 2006 movie ‘Children of Men’ featured content depicting the London 2012 Olympic games
PGDn TIL there is a prequel to “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” called “Halloween is Grinch Night”, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 1977.