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TIL Penn Jillette holds a patent for the "Jill-Jet", a hot-tub jet specially angled for a woman's pleasure.

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MZk7 TIL Kindergarten (literally “children’s garden”) while both a German word and a German invention widely adopted around the world is, ironically, not usually part of the German state-supported school system.
wGKM TIL That after three days of discovering Kurt Cobain’s body, the stereo at the scene of his death was still on with an R.E.M. CD in place suggesting Kurt Cobain killed himself while listening to R.E.M.
LQYm9 TIL that the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., is primarily freshwater. However, during extremely high tides or significant storm surges, brackish water—a mixture of saltwater and freshwater will go as far upriver as DC.
VMQG TIL During the 2002 Iraqi election, Saddam Hussein’s campaign song was Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”
OGXXL TIL that on July 13, 1854, the U.S. Navy bombarded and destroyed the Nicaraguan town of Greytown without a single American casualty, in retaliation for insults against an American diplomat and a shipping dispute.