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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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l7Xar TIL that "Dead Poets Society" (1989) remains Ethan Hawke's most commercially successful movie. It grossed $235 million worldwide
rge0 TIL of Lafayette Pool. He was a tank platoon commander during the Allied Invasion of France, with 12 tank kills, 258 armored car kills, and over 1,000 Nazis killed.
5V0D TIL Dr. Seuss pronounced his pen name as rhyming with “voice”
LJYd TIL that during the Great Famine, Ireland continued to export enormous quantities of food to England. This kept food prices far too high for the average Irish peasant to afford and was a major contributing factor in the large death toll from the famine.
JYkvj TIL famous French philosopher René Descartes died in Stockholm, Sweden after contracting pneumonia at the cold and draughty castle of Queen Christina which he agreed to teach her 3 times a week at 5am.