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TIL More children are killed by dirty water than by war, malaria, HIV/AIDS and traffic accidents combined.

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8aDN4 TIL Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo in the days where they started to enter the gaming market with the Xbox, but they got laughed out of the meeting room instead.
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.
R7pl1 TIL that beavers build dams because they hate the sound of running water. A researcher set up speakers that played the audio of running water in multiple beaver populated areas, and the next morning found them to be covered in layers of sticks and mud.
6Rn8 TIL LED traffic lights have led to car crashes and deaths in the past, since they emit too little heat to melt snow & ice which block the lights
MxZ0 TIL When women synchronize mentrual cycles, the more socially outgoing or “dominant” woman’s cycle will make other women’s cycles conform to hers.