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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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JDZB TIL that the director of Cannibal Holocaust Ruggero Deodato was accused of actually murdering the actors in the film to make the deaths more realistic. He had them sign a contract to stay out of the media for a year to make it seem like they had truely died.
D14lj TIL in 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes because he objected the Mexican-American War and slavery. He spent the night in jail for his actions. This popularized the concept of Civil Disobedience, peacefully protesting a law, which later influenced Gandhi, MLK, and Leo Tolstoy.
WM08 TIL the boy who voiced Bambi grew up to become the youngest drill instructor in Marines history
J1O8v TIL the film Kangaroo Jack (2003) originally had violence, cursing and sex scenes but producers were unsatisfied with the rough cut and turned it into a family animal comedy after positive response to the kangaroo in test screens.
QNMGe TIL that Texas is larger than any country in Europe. Not only that, if it were its own country, it would be 40th out of 193 in size.