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TIL a toilet hose & spray head ($15) must not be installed without an RPZ valve ($400). The fresh water supply to your house and your whole street can be infected with bacteria.

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4XLAa TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until 2000.
8akM8 TIL that in Lawrence of Arabia, the take where Sharif approaches on his camel was shot with a 482mm telephoto lens with spherical optics created by Panavision to meet David Lean’s vision. The lens has never been used since, but creators of Breaking Bad considered using it for the "Bagman" episode.
4XQZ5 TIL that when John DeLorean was busted buying cocaine, undercover agents thought he had paid by signing over control of his car company. At trial, it came out that he had signed over rights to a worthless holding company instead.
4XQD6 TIL that Hans Zimmer for the film Interstellar composed some of the score in specific BPM (Beats per minute) to match the time of each planet they were on.
l08B TIL there is a town in Japan where deceased or otherwise departed people have been slowly replaced by dolls - over the last 10 years, the doll population has grown to 350, now outnumbering humans 10 to 1, populating empty schools, sidewalks and more