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TIL 55% of the world's population aged 15 and older can't swim

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kOM67 TIL pressure-balanced devices, which prevent "flush-toilet-shower-scald issues" became required in residential building codes starting in 1997.
Z8Al4 TIL that the 'Turn-about Ranch', a camp that is frequently recommended by Dr Phil to troubled children, has cases of children being severely abused and humiliated.
8eKGX TIL Nunavut is the only Province or Territory in Canada without a single Walmart store
X0J68 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.
NQBe TIL that a man cut his own head off with a chainsaw in protest of being forced out of his home by the government.