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TIL that Steve Jobs soaked his feet in toilets

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pxJ8 TIL that since there is no red light 30 ft under the water, blood looks green. If you go even deeper, blood color may change from green to black.
JYym8 TIL that there exist "Ag-Gag" laws in multiple states, which criminalize releasing videos or media of the inside of factory farms. These laws target animal activists trying to expose factory farming conditions, and are justified as trying to protect the agriculture industry.
xVxw5 TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town
N7v6Q TIL in 1977 Kinney, Minnesota, with a population of 325 people, declared war on the United States and seceded from the union as a successful ploy to get foreign aid from the government to fix their water works.
ne8BY TIL that during the 1918 influenza epidemic, volunteers in Seattle made 260,000 face masks in three days