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TIL most bottled water companies bottle their water straight from public tap

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j6GkM TIL that rent in Kowloon Walled City is the same price as a short cappuccino in Starbucks in Hong Kong nowadays (35 HKD).
4XeVX TIL that Super Mario is named after real-life businessman Mario Segale, who was renting out a warehouse to Nintendo. After Nintendo fell far behind on rent, Segale did not evict them but gave them a second chance to come up with the money. Nintendo succeeded and named their main character after him.
G9nJ TIL that crossing your fingers for luck is actually a Christian symbol for invoking protection by emulating the shape of a cross.
QJo1p TIL of Cibella Borges, a female NYC cop who was fired from her job after it was revealed she posed for a nude magazine prior to becoming an officer. She was reinstated three years later and awarded $80,000 in backpay
pYBY4 TIL The second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri, died in mysterious circumstances in 1966. No autopsy was ever performed, the Indian Government released no information about his death, and the media was kept silent. His death is considered to be one India's biggest unsolved mysteries.