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TIL Nestlé is draining developing countries’ groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.

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Bgx7x TIL Bill Maher Promoted: Cell Phones was Scam Back in 2003
nWlQr TIL there are approximately 50 birds for every human on earth.
d857K TIL: If all of the earth's history was compressed into a single year, humans wouldn't come before 23:36 on December 31st.
1aw47 TIL in the late 1960s, some researchers reported catnip gave people a marijuana-like high, but it turned out they had simply mixed up the two plants.
e0715 TIL of infrasound - a low-frequency sound (19Hz and below) that cannot be heard, but literally unsettles human beings. Some horror movie music composers use this sound to make audiences feel dread just before disturbing or scary images appears on the screen.