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TIL there's an emergency Hall & Oates hotline called "Callin' Oates". You can call in an choose from 4 Hall & Oates songs to listen to. Apparently, it's been around since 2011

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p8D4Q TIL Ringo Starr plays the drums left-handed on a right-handed drum set.
0weK5 TIL Barnum's American Museum had crowds that would linger inside too long. To make way for new paying guests, signs saying "This Way to the Egress" were put up. Not knowing Egress was another word for Exit, people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit but ended up outside
9w7wQ TIL In the 1920s John Factor earned millions from fraud in Britian before escaping to Monaco where he broke the bank by rigging the tables. Factor escaped to the United States where he eventually received a pardon from President Kennedy, Factor was Kennedy's biggest donator.
9YavM TIL the voice acting in the original Resident Evil was so bad because the English actors had no idea of the context of their lines and the Japanese devs picked whatever take sounded the best to them.
KONgG TIL of Wille Herold, a private of the German Army in World War II, who posed as a Luftwaffe captain and subsequently organized the mass execution of deserters in a German prison camp in the last days of the war.