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TIL Fire hydrants are color coded for how many gallons of water per minute they can put out

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NXgde TIL Devil's Advocate was an official position within the Catholic Church dedicated to uncovering flaws and misrepresenations of miracles during the process of canonizaion into sainthood
LkEA9 TIL aluminum was the most valuable metal on Earth until the 20th century. When Napoleon the third entertained guests, his guests would use a gold spoon and he would use an aluminum spoon.
OK5Y TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger secretly tricked Jesse Ventura into thinking he had bigger Biceps so that he could get him to bet a bottle of champagne when they measured
RK4Q TIL the word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron, with 'oxy’ deriving from the ancient greek for 'sharp’, and 'moron’ from 'dull’
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