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TIL Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River because it drained sewage into Lake Michigan where many got/get their drinking water from.

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jP6a TIL 1 in 5 adults admits to peeing in the pool. This, with a combination of cosmetics and sweat, is what leads to people’s eyes turning red. Not the chlorine
lXAN TIL that Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
69eWJ TIL porcelain dentures included traces of uranium up until the mid-1980s, the idea was the fluorescence provided by uranium would better mimic the colour of natural teeth
e4vD TIL as a child raised in South Carolina, US political comedienne Stephen Colbert observed that Southerners were often depicted as being less intelligent than other characters on scripted television; to avoid that stereotype, he taught himself to imitate the speech of American news anchors.
nKRW TIL there’s a building in Toronto that has its windows coated with 24 karat gold leaf, worth over $1,000,000.