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TIL that the mayor of a South Carolina town barred the researchers who exposed the Flint, Michigan water problem from testing his own city's wells, even after they found high levels of lead in thousands of residential home tests.

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loPrB TIL Abraham Lincoln authorized the creation of the Secret Service whose original purpose was to investigate counterfeit money which accounted for almost half of all US currency. He was shot the same day.
bVGQ TIL: In Italy, it is not a crime to steal food if you are hungry and have no other means of nourishment.
9wwvX TIL: The automotive service companies AAMCO and MAACO were founded by the same person. The business names used the founder's initials forward and backwards respectively.
PYj7O TIL in 2008, Janet Barrett from the UK received a RSVP to a party invitation originally posted on 29 November 1919. It had taken 89 years to be delivered by the Royal Mail.
GMl1 TIL When worn on deployment, US Flag patches on uniforms are infrared so soldiers can be identified as friendly by others looking through night vision goggles