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TIL that while Mother’s Day is the biggest holiday for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls.

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bbbN TIL it is illegal in many countries to perform surgical procedures on an octopus without anesthesia due to their intelligence
lJX1 TIL during the Cold War, President Nixon devised a strategy to make the USSR think he was crazy and capable of launching nukes at any moment. It was called the “Madman Theory”.
R5WM6 TIL that Alaska- the U.S. state geographically opposite Florida, where NASA launched space flights- has its own spaceport.
Egd9x TIL Dr Benjamin Rush gained acclaim in Philadelphia during the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 by bravely visiting up to 100 patients a day, however due to his aggressive treatments including bloodletting it’s argued how much he helped, with some claiming his treatments killed more than they saved.
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