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TIL That Jordan Belfort’s (the Wolf of Wall Street) Private Investigator played himself in the 2013 film

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gy9D TIL Portland drained 38 million gallons of treated water because a drunk teen urinated in it.
a89XM TIL that in July 2021, polling found that 58% of Western Cape voters were in favor of holding a referendum on secession from South Africa.
lWPB TIL that scientists at UC Berkeley were able to take atomic-scale pictures of a molecule before and after a chemical reaction. The images looked EXACTLY like the classic molecular structure diagrams shown in text books.
N7dWb TIL in 2014 chlorine gas was released in a hotel hosting a furry convention, injuring 19 people. The apparent chemical attack is unsolved, and the source of the chlorine is still unknown.
b0EE TIL that Adobe was shocked that its software was being used in Blue’s Clues’ production by Nickelodeon. Adobe’s developers never knew it could be used to create character animation on the scale that Blue’s Clues was using.