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TIL that billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty installed a pay phone at his mansion for guests to use so that he would not be billed for their calls.

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kgy5 TIL that Michael Rockerfeller is rumored to have died and eaten by cannibals during an expedition to New Guinea but previously unreleased footage from this documentary may prove he is alive and living with the native tribe.
j6yeX TIL that Klaus and Sunny from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow, a famous attempted murder case where a wealthy lawyer was found guilty of injecting his wife, Sunny, with a deadly insulin cocktail which left her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life
m1Eex Today I learned, one morning in May of 2007, someone hijacked the local Disney Channel station in Lincroft, New Jersey and played a pornographic scene during an airing of Handy Manny during the Playhouse Disney block
Xndj TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep. If not, they may wake up gasping for air and oxygen deprived because a bubble of their own Carbon Dioxide has formed around their heads.
MeM80 TIL Norwegian police banned a team of Finnish divers from a cave in 2014 after 2 people died. In secret, the divers pulled their 2 dead friends to the surface & fulfilled a promise to a widow of one man. The illegal rescue took 27 divers & 101 hrs in frigid water, using about 1-ton of equip.