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TIL that Nestle paid $2,238 for 600 million litres of water at one Ontario well in 2010, or 0.0000004 cents a litre.

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J4pk TIL that China’s toxic air pollution is so severe it impedes photosynthesis and resembles nuclear winter
Rlr8 TIL Oscar the Grouch is not Green. He is orange, and muck from a swamp made him green before Season 2 of Sesame Street
R1Jw TIL that the torture perpetrated at the Kemna concentration camp, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazi themselves held hearings and investigated the reports of torture. However, no crimes were prosecuted, there were only warnings given.
m6NP TIL that “Perytons” were mysterious radio signals detected only at the Parkes radio telescope. They were found to be caused by the premature opening of a microwave oven door at the visitor center.
9EKD TIL Harriet the Tortoise died in an Australian zoo at the age of 176. She was born before the light bulb (not just Edison’s) and the first power plant. Her death was announced on CNN. She was brought back from the Galapagos by a young scientist named Charles Darwin.