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TIL in the Phoenix Metro area, the water utility still offers flood irrigation to homeowners. Twice per month, they will flood your entire property to 1 ft. deep for ~$0.0006/gal (homes with ~0.2 acre only pay $152.25/mo.)!

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mxaZx TIL that Rhodes Scholarships and Rhodesia are named after the same guy,
Rle4 TIL: While shooting The Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) often spent days hiking to the film’s remote locations, in costume and carrying his sword, in order to appear authentically travel-worn.
MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".
GARk5 TIL of Fort Stevens, Oregon, the only military installation in the mainland US to be attacked during World War 2. A Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast and fired a volley of shells at the fort, which took no damage aside from the backstop of its baseball field.
a8ApA TIL a woman was once drafted by the NBA but had to turn the team down bc she was pregnant. She’s also in the hall of fame.