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Til that in 2007 a California man died when he was hit in the head by a fire hydrant that it was dislodged from the sidewalk when a passing car struck it

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8elGb TIL that the United States Air Force owns 4 Doomsday planes specifically designed for nuclear war, and one of them has a callsign named 'ORDER66'
xjjk TIL that Kryptonite was invented because Superman’s original voice actor wanted time off, and the only way to do this was to make Superman sick.
MQ68 TIL that by combining human DNA with yeast, people have made and are selling human gelatin.
ZEXp TIL The Titanic had a much more successful sister ship called the “Olympic”. It was the only merchant ship to sink an enemy warship during World War I, after it turned around and rammed a submarine that had tried to torpedo it. The sub sank after it was gashed open by one of the Olympic’s propellers
ZppLR TIL Bruce Willis starred in the movies Armageddon and The Sixth Sense in part due to a lawsuit with The Walt Disney Company