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TIL Houston officials let developers build thousands of homes inside reservoirs. Nobody told homebuyers that the reservoirs were designed to flood during major rainstorms until Hurricane Harvey happened.

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xV9y0 TIL about "The Thomas Edison of Finland", Eric Tigerstedt, who was awarded 71 patents between 1912 and 1924, including one in 1917 for a "pocket-size folding telephone". He was tragically killed in a car accident on April 20, 1924, rumoured to have been caused by a competitor.
KgNB TIL that a man was not only born with two functional penises, but with an extra limb growing out from between his genitals and anus, allowing him to seemingly shake hands with his own arsehole.
N7gyN TIL There is no Wal-Mart in NYC
gar8 TIL: Prisoners in Sweden live better than the low income American
m1xDv TIL about university constituencies, which allows universities to have seat at a legislative body. Countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia and the Virginia Colony used to have these and Rwanda and Ireland still have them