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TIL the inventor of the fire hydrant is unknown because the patent was lost in a fire too.

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8aXbZ TIL of Robert Hubert, who was accused of causing the Great Fire of London. He declared that he had thrown a grenade through a window into the bakery where it had started. Yet, he hadn’t been in England, the bakery didn’t have any windows, and he was a cripple. He was still executed.
RKk1 TIL in 2012 the largest breast cancer foundation in the United States, Susan G Komen, attempted to withdraw funding for Planned Parenthood for mammograms, the diagnostic and screening tool for breast cancer.
RDEQ TIL that an estimated 85 people die for every life saved by speed bumps, because while they slow down cars and save pedestrians they also slow down emergency vehicles that might otherwise save people.
e9pJ TIL that purple as a color is similar to violet, but violet is a spectral color with its own wavelength on the visible spectrum of light whereas purple is a composite color, made by combining red and blue.
wOQW TIL In an effort to preserve the language, ‘Star Wars’ is being dubbed in Navajo