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TIL that the Colorado River has rarely actually reached the ocean for decades, all the water gets used or evaporates.

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e0Oa5 TIL the EPA lists which cleaning products kill different viruses and microbes.
xVEgo TIL Pink Slime was actually in 70% of ground meat and processed meat in grocery stores in the US in 2012. Today it is banned in Europe and Canada, but is still legal in the US
nL69 TIL that the city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote thousands of love letters to their favorite trees.
oRdB7 TIL back in February 1972, Franken Berry cereal caused some children’s feces to turn pink, a condition dubbed “Franken Berry stool,” due to an indigestible pigment. The recipe, along with Count Chocula’s, was quickly reformulated to remove the pigment.
ADnRg TIL that on the first day the Suez Canal opened, Nov 17, 1869, a French ship named the Péluse ran aground and blocked the canal, forcing ships stuck in the canal to wait until the next morning when the Péluse was hauled away.