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TIL Aquafina and Dasani are nothing more than tap water.

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MX8a TIL a stray dog in Afghanistan saved 50 American soliders. A Facebook group raised $21,000 to bring the dogs back to the US and reunite them with the soldiers.
grEnD TIL about The Linked Headstones of Het Oude Kerkhof. A husband and wife who could not be buried next to one another because he was Protestant and she was Catholic find a way to be symbolically with each other through a linked hands on their headstones.
GALAN TIL They developed and implemented Pacemakers powered by a Plutontum 238 source, people are still living with them til this day
ZArD TIL 5000 years ago the Chinese created nail polish and used it to symbolize wealth and power among the elite. It was forbidden among the general population. Reports exist of commoners sentenced to die for wearing it.
rDme TIL that in 2017, Norway will be the first country in the world to shut down FM radio and go digital instead. Norway plans to switch to DAB (which stands for ‘Digital Audio Broadcasting’), since FM is eight times more expensive.