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KOdgG Study finds microplastics in more than 90 percent of tested water bottles.
R57ya TIL of the United States Camel Corps, a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. The Civil War interfered with the experiment and it was eventually abandoned; the animals were sold at auction.
8awRa TIL Los Angeles may spend billions to turn the Hoover Dam into a gigantic battery by pumping water back up into Lake Mead at times when solar energy is cheap
pYYN4 TIL France, saw its own constitutional crisis in 1958, when an attempted military coup was diverted only when the wartime leader Charles de Gaulle handed himself emergency powers to establish a unity government that satisfied both civilian and military leaders.
nE8r TIL one of Bruce Lee’s teachers was an illegal bare knuckle champion, undefeated for at least 60 fights. He retired after accidentally blinding an opponent.