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TIL how the human introduced Burmese python is destroying the everglades

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MlEV TIL that until the late 1960s, men with long hair were prohibited from entering Disneyland because it did not meet the standards of Disney’s unwritten dress code. Employees were also prohibited from having any facial hair because visitors would associate it with un-American activities.
Yp4pA TIL due to extreme lack of surface water, a unique project was constructed to reliably provide the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with water. A 50 mile long pipeline passing under the sea transfers water covering demand for drinking and irrigation for the state at the northern part of Cyprus.
oRxkL TIL NBA teammates David Robinson and Tim Duncan were nicknamed the “Twin Towers” due to their height. That nickname ended in 2001 even though they remained teammates until 2003.
5V9Nr TIL FDA guidelines allow bottled water to be labeled as artesian, groundwater, distilled, deionized, reverse osmosis, mineral, purified, sparkling, spring and/or sterile
v1JWx TIL that companies such as Wholefoods, Starbucks, Microsoft, IBM make use of prison labour