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TIL that Canada has no national rule on sewage treatment, and dumps a staggering amount of human excrement, toxins and pharmaceuticals directly into rivers and the ocean

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LV6v TIL that if you Google image the number 241543903 you’ll end up with picturs of heads in freezers
5bwD TIL in 2011, PETA mocked a 21 year old man who was attacked by a shark while he was spearfishing, calling the attack ‘payback.’
XEYRQ TIL that for 8 years the CIA ran Operation Midnight Climax, brothels in NYC and San Fran where they secretly administered drugs to johns to study the effects.
GY5WN TIL acre and the prefix agri- (agriculture) share a common ancestor in an ancient Bronze age language, proto-indo-european. The same is true for the words futile and God.
loAMK TIL the inventor of the floating bullcock and the U-bend plumbing trap, both of which enhanced early flushing toilets, was named Thomas Crapper. His surname is not responsible for the term Crap referring to feces, despite his history of toilet innovation.