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TIL Fire hydrants are colored differently because of different water pressures.

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5YGYR TIL: SciFi Author Gene Wolfe Invented the Machine that makes Pringles. He also looks a lot like the Pringles Man on the can.
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160rW TIL in the late '70s and early '80s, the Soviets "bugged" IBM Selectric II typewriters in the US Embassy in Moscow so they would report what the Americans were typing by radio. We only found out when a friendly country's embassy told us it had happened to their typewriters.