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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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Z81yG TIL actor Jim Carrey wrote a fictitious autobiography that includes Chinese conspiracies, faking versions of celebrities, hallucinogenic dialogues, battling aliens with Gwyneth Paltrow and dressing up before going to bed as he’s afraid of selfies taken at the morgue if he dies in his sleep.
EgPGo TIL Andrew Johnson did not master reading, grammar, or math until he met his wife at 17. The only other President with so little formal education was Abraham Lincoln. However Lincoln is esteemed as America's greatest President, while Johnson, his successor, is ranked as one of the worst
b6maQ TIL of Gottlob Bumann, a Geman Omantic poet who hated a cetain lette of the alphabet between Q and S. He avoided it in all of the 130 poems he wote and efused to say his last name in eveyday convesation.
OWBe TIL of WW1 Casualty/Mercy dogs. Dogs trained to find wounded or dying soldiers on the battlefield that also carried medical supplies so an injured soldier could try to treat himself (whilst more gravely wounded soldiers would seek the company of a Mercy dog to wait with them whilst they died).
wLBJ1 TIL In 2006, Dustin Diamond asked listeners of Howard Stern's show to purchase a T-shirt reading "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house" (spelling "Screech" with an extra E for copyright reasons), hoping to sell 30,000 shirts in order to raise $250,000 and avoid foreclosure on his house