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TIL 25% of all bottled water in the US comes from the city’s tap including Aquafina (Pepsi) & Dasani (Coke)

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Zp4Qo TIL that children in ancient China learned to write from "Thousand Character Text", a 1000-word poem where the characters do not repeat and cover everything from philisophy to astrology.
5VWg8 TIL Maria Riva, daughter of Marlena Dietrich, is considered to be the first person to have a career spanning nine decades.
ANPKn TIL that two time Nobel prize winner Marie Curie was buried in a lead lined coffin, all of her belongings are stored in lead lined boxes and will be radioactive for 1500 years.
69vwW TIL that amateur radio operators are able to speak directly to astronauts on the international space station. Low power radio equipment and small antennas can be used to establish communications to the ISS, mostly taking place during their scheduled evening free time.
XEJrE TIL Los Angeles’s private golf courses effectively receive a public subsidy of $89.8 million in taxes” paying only $200,00 in property taxes without granting the public access to the land. LA ranks bottom of the list in terms of public parks against all major metropolitan cities in America.