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TIL a fire hydrant in San Francisco that survived the 1906 earthquake and aided fire fighters in saving the Mission district was painted gold in memory of the event.

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6N6Y TIL that in Detroit during the 1930’s, a man named Joseph Figlock was walking down the street when a baby fell from a window and landed on Figlock, neither was harmed. A year later, Figlock was walking down the same street when the same baby fell from the window onto him again, neither was harmed.
0krp TIL during the Holocaust one Jewish woman exposed between 600 and 3000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to prevent her family from being sent to a concentration camp. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945
4Xww TIL that the United States’ only native parrot species, the Carolina Parakeet, went extinct in 1918 because they were deemed as pests by farmers and as lovely decorations for ladies’ hats.
NX8LQ TIL the smallest statue in London of two mice fighting over a piece of cheese might have been created to honor two construction workers who died in the 1860's when they were fighting over a sandwich and fell from the building 🐀🧀
KMGa TIL that Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody became the only song to hit the top ten twice, two decades apart, first in 1976 and again in 1992 after being featured in the Wayne’s World soundtrack.