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TIL there are several different categories to drowning and 90% of deaths from drowning involve a relatively small amount of liquid.

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ADPrB TIL colored toilet paper used to be popular in the U.S. until the 80s. It was colored to better match different bathroom decors. It is still widely used in France today.
l7eBG TIL the first American-born ace of World War II was Arthur T. Chin. An aviator in the Chinese Air Force during the second Sino-Japanese War, he became the first American-born ace in that war. Chin was born in Portland, Oregon.
XEVvR TIL there's a bio-hacker project to produce insulin cheaply.
xVGpD TIL that the movie Independence Day still holds the record for most miniature models to appear in one film. Approximately 95% of the movie's special effects were shot using miniatures and due to the advances in digital technology this record may stand forever.
4XYWR TIL George Miller had his wife Margaret Sixel edit Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller said that she had never cut an action movie before, and he said if was edited by "the usual kind of guys, it would look like every other action movie we see." She went on to win a Oscar for her editing work in the film.