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TIL: 3 US Presidents died from drinking water contaminated with sewage

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1omP TIL that Bhutan is the only country to have officially adopted gross national happiness instead of the gross domestic product as the main development indicator
4XBR TIL that Rush Limbaugh used his show’s theme - the bassline from “My City Was Gone”, by The Pretenders, without permission. When the song’s writer found out, she demanded that her royalties from Rush’s use of the song be donated to PETA.
OWv1 TIL that in Crystal Palace Park, London, are the oldest-known dinosaur sculptures, based entirely off fossil findings discovered in the 1850’s. They are very inaccurate.
W7NPY TIL of the Tlatelolco massacre, a student protest that led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of people being injured, after the mexican government had snipers firing at the Mexican Armed Forces to make it appear the protest had turned violent and justify the massacre
7rJW7 TIL that in 1985, Xi Jinping spent 2 weeks with a US family in Iowa in order to study US agriculture.