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TIL Nestle is draining water from Poor areas to sell to the poor and fought to take away water as a human right.

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wLRP7 TIL that Formosa Province in Argentina is the antipode with Taiwan, which was historically also known as Formosa. European sailors speaking different languages gave the same name to two areas at exact opposite points of the Earth.
GYrmE Today I learned that being able to power a light bulb with a sanitary napkin is a) possible and b) desirable.
neDDG TIL the reason backseat windows in cars don't roll all the way down is not in fact for child safety, but because there isn't room in the car door to fit the full window due to the wheel well.
Xerj TIL That in 2009 scientists brought an extinct species back to life through cloning. The clone lived for seven minutes before dying of a lung defect.
xVyDk TIL of a nomadic water bird called the “branded stilt” found in Australia that can mysteriously sense and chase rainfalls hundreds of miles away often in sudden, unpredictable and gypsylike movements