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TIL Nestlé is taking 265 million litres of fresh Canadian water every year to bottle and sell off around the world – and it does not pay a penny.

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WWN9 TIL there’s a 47 year old burger encased in resin that’s archived in the Alberta Legislature Building
yVX9a TIL that for two years, Irish police had been looking for a 'Prawo Jazdy', a reckless driver with over 50 offenses, only to learn that 'prawo jazdy' is Polish for 'driver's license'
PYaGG TIL straight plastic bag bans implemented in Chicago and Hawaii resulted in many stores just upping the thickness of their plastic bags to 2.25 mils to cross the threshold that separates “single-use” plastic from “reusable” plastic bags under many bag laws.
xNK1 TIL Henry Ford once refused to pay $10,000 to General Electric for fixing a generator problem and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer from the job, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: “Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999.” Ford ended up paying the bill.
0d4vR TIL that in the 19th century a portuguese serial killer's head was preserved in a jar after his execution for scientific purposes.