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TIL the colors of fire hydrants display the amount of water they provide

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KYdbw TIL that the Nazis also killed ~1.8 million residents of Poland who were not Jewish, because they considered them racially inferior.
7rMjM TIL that when Mt. Everest was found to be the tallest mountain on Earth at 29000ft (the estimate at the time), an extra 2 feet were added on top of the number because they feared if it was too round of a number, the public would think they had picked an arbitrary number.
1adO7 TIL that The Backstreet Boys despite having sold over 100 million records worldwide and being called as one of the world's best selling music artists of all time, have never attained no. 1 position in Billboard Hot 100 chart. They have had no. 1 albums but not any no. 1 single.
kOL57 TIL that a group of pandas is called an embarrassment
gv09 TIL that the youngest medically recorded mother was 5 years old. Her son was born healthy and was raised believing that his mom was his sister.