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DYXJ TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.
AN66x TIL Sticky rice was mixed with slaked lime to create a mortar that held the bricks of the Great Wall of China together.
xVVkb TIL that a Catholic cannot join any Masonic organization because membership is a grave sin bars the member from receiving Communion
b9V8N TIL in Paris, 2016, the only daughter of King Saud ordered her bodygaurds to take a handyman hostage for a minor precieved slight. They beat him, and forced him to kiss her feet. She recieved a 10,000€ fine.
J1naV TIL somebody has won the Kissinger Death Tontine, where people predict(ed) the death of Henry Kissinger after donating to an organization that "undoes some of the damage of US imperialism", winner gets some booze