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TIL Los Angeles consumes the same amount of water today as it did in 1970, with 1 million more residents. The city consumes approximately 123 gallons per capita, per day, which is the best in the entire nation.

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nEJd TIL an international group of seven people are keyholders for verifying the authenticity of DNS entries, essentially enabling them to ‘restart’ DNS / the internet in the event of a catastrophe.
Rjp1 TIL Roger Ebert refused to give “The Human Centipede” a star rating, stating that it was unsuited for the film and that whether it was good or bad didn’t matter.
mpmp TIL that in 1900, Italian King Umberto met a restaurant owner who looked exactly like himself. After speaking, they learned that they were born on the same day, of the same year, in the same town, and married a wife of the same name. They would both go on to be murdered the next day.
X0vn6 TIL that researchers discovered that the area of the brain that communicates with the adrenal glands receives signals from the core muscles as well and that strengthening the core muscles can modulate the stressful, flight-or-fight response and help people feel less stressed.
ddW9 TIL There is a reply to “Liar, liar, pants are on fire”, it’s “I don’t care, I don’t care, I can buy another pair”