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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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W7N8Y TIL high levels of Neanderthal DNA is linked with LOWER risk of Schizophrenia and Psychotic Symptom
OovOe TIL Boston's debut album was initially rejected because band founder Tom Scholz had recorded and produced it entirely in his basement. In order to appease/fool the label, Scholz hired someone to pretend to produce the album while he rerecorded and reproduced the same album from his basement again.
QJ8Od TIL in 1929, German doctor Werner Forssmann performed the first human cardiac catheterisation on himself. After ignoring his boss and tricking a nurse into helping him, he inserted a catheter into his right arm before calmly walking to the x-ray department. He was later awarded with the Nobel Prize.
d8MVB TIL that the #1 high school in California also has one of the highest suicide rates in the country.
ZpWMY TIL Housewife of the Year was an annual contest in Ireland between 1967 and 1995.