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TIL there are many people living without running water in the USA

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QJwWE TIL there is a baseball team named the Rocket City Trash Pandas. Their logo is a raccoon in a trash can that is also a rocket.
lZJN TIL the X-Files episode ‘Home’ which was about a murderous inbred family was loosely based on a story from Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography where a family introduced him to their quadruple amputee son by pulling him out from under a bed after which he “flopp[ed] around” while they sang and danced.
kykd TIL the Gameboy had a sonar add-on for fishermen, that could locate fish up to 65 feet deep. It also included a fishing mini-game
9YLWM TIL about The Day The Clown Cried, directed and starring Jerry Lewis about a clown sent to a concentration camp. The ambitious 1972 film was plagued by problems in production and was never finished. Lewis' son donated an incomplete copy to the Library of Congress but won't be shown until 2025.
awkNN TIL that many non-english languages have no concept of a spelling bee because the spelling rules in those languages are too regular for good spelling to be impressive