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TIL fire hydrants are color coded to indicate the water flow in gallons per minute

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XE0V6 TIL that in Tennessee in 2001, three 10 year old girls legally married three men in their mid-20s to early-30s. In 2006 a 27 year old woman legally wedded an 11 year old boy.
ABDd TIL of “wife carrying”, a sport in Estonia and Finland where the object of the game is to carry a woman over an obstacle course and the prize is the woman’s weight in beer
xVeZo TIL that practicing shooting in the desert in Arizona, David M. Grundman, 27, shot a giant saguaro cactus. The 7 meters tall plant got chopped off, crushing him to death.
QyKp TIL that the female brown trout fakes its orgasms in order to trick males into believing they successfully fertilised her eggs.
neljP TIL that the finance minister of Latvia is also Woman Grandmaster of chess, the second highest-ranking chess title that exists for women