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TIL fire hydrants are color coded so fire fighters instantly know the pressure and water flow.

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dweB TIL George Clooney once cleaned his roommate’s cat’s litter box for four days, then shit in it himself, causing the roommate to think it was from his constipated cat.
4Pm6 TIL that low-background steel, which has not been contaminated by radioactive fallout from nuclear tests and is used in equipment sensitive to radiation, primarily comes from salvaged ships sunk before the Trinity test.
YpkQA TIL in 1903, two men and a pit bull made the first documented journey by automobile from San Francisco to New York using only a connection of dirt roads, cow paths, and railroad beds. The journey took 63 days, became a national sensation, and called for a system of long distance roads.
6EdjX TIL that prior to converting to Islam, Bosnians practiced a unique form of Christianity that was considered heretical by both the Catholic and Orthodox church.
781xL TIL the greatest recorded temperature change in a 24 hour period is 103 degrees. On January 15, 1972 the temperature in Loma, Montana went from -54 to 49 degrees.