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TIL You shouldn't use hot top water to drink or cook with, as it it much more likely to contain greater amounts of lead

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YgA7 TIL things with a “Made in America” label are often times up to 90% made outside of the USA!
OjmL TIL the original One Hundred and One Dalmatians novel is very much like the movies. But it has a sequel about an alien dog coming to earth and putting all the humans to sleep so as to prevent nuclear holocaust.
9wPMm TIL in a rare move for a large corporation, SC Johnson voluntarily stopped using Polyvinylidene chloride in saran wrap which made it cling but was harmful to the planet. They lost a huge market share.
n0Ar TIL that in 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.
5VmAr TIL the line on the side of ships called the plimsoll line is named after the MP Samuel Plimsoll