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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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WkpdL TIL about Georgia Tann, who was an American child trafficker who operated a major adoption agency in Memphis, Tennesee. Tann used the agency as a front to steal and sell Children in the 1920s until 1950, when a state investigation resulted in the agency closing.
W1J8 TIL that the only person to win the grand prize on the game show “Moment of Truth” answered the final question by admitting that she believed her polygamist father had had sex with a minor.
VMd8p TIL a gang of brilliant French thieves used a vacuum cleaner to steal $800K from a bunch of grocery stores. The stores used a pneumatic tube system to convey their cash payments to their safes. They broke in and used the vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of the store vaults.
9wBLr TIL fingerprinting as a forensic science could have entered mainstream criminal investigation 50 years earlier than it did if Scotland Yard had heeded the advice of a small-village surgeon telling them to check for fingerprints in the throat-cut murder of Lord William Russell in May, 1840.
0wmER TIL Christopher Columbus used a book of astronomical tables when the next lunar eclipse would take place and use it to warn the indigenous people in Jamaica to treat his crew better or else the moon would rise red. Lunar eclipse happened, and they pleaded Columbus to restore the moon.