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TIL that the official inventor of the fire hydrant remains unknown because the patent was lost in a fire.

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Q8Nd TIL the average man ejaculates 14 gallons (63.6 L) of semen in their lifetime. That’s enough to fill the tank of a small car!
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d8DoZ TIL that in 1871 Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
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