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TIL - All fire hydrant patents filed before 1836 were destroyed by a fire that burned the U.S. Patent Office to the ground

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E5Kx TIL the costume designers for Lord of the Rings worked for two straight years making custom armor for the movies. They fabricated a total of 11 kilometers of chain mail (nearly 7 miles) by hand, to lay under the armor of the warriors. Just one orc suit had 13,000 rings and took 3 days to make.
0OMA TIL: There’s a resort near Disney World that is just for kids with terminal illness and their families. There is no waiting list and they won’t turn away any child. It was started by a Holocaust survivor.
wYdM TIL That as late as the early 1900’s jaguars natural habitat extended into Texas and almost to Louisiana.
X5Or TIL that you don’t need to buy a Micro or Nano SIM card, you can use scissors and cut a normal sized SIM card to fit the slot.
MljV TIL as of 2011, there are more barrels of bourbon aging in the state of Kentucky (4.7 million) than there are people who live there (4.3 million).