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TIL: Electric water heaters have 2 heating elements inside

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yod8 TIL that US teen crime is now at lowest level since 1960.
BgBly TIL that future British Prime Minister Anthony Eden carried a letter bomb in his suitcase for a whole day, thinking it was a Whitehall pamphlet that he would read later in the day. He only realized it was a bomb after being warned by the police, who were informed by MI5.
E1gZp TIL that Keurig believes that Canadian K-Cups will be recyclable by 2018 and all K-Cups will be 100% recyclable by the year 2020
0we4R TIL in 1999 Professor Bill Ditto made a simple calculator using the neurons taken out of leeches; word's first biological computer. It was aptly named the "leech-ulator".
awKey TIL: Perdue Pharma distributed a music CD to physicians titled “Get in the Swing with OxyContin”