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TIL about Wind Phones: unconnected telephone booths world-wide where people can hold conversations with deceased loved ones.

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xZ6g TIL 3 men, Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov, sacrificed themselves to save millions of people by diving into the reservoir beneath Chernobyl’s reactor to cease an imminent steam explosion that would’ve turned catastrophe-level accident into a doomsday-level accident.
X0JME TIL that Clyde Barrow (of Bonne & Clyde) personally wrote a letter to Henry Ford telling him what a great getaway car the V8 was.
7yk7 TIL In WWII the US Navy had huge floating dry docks that were big enough to hold battleships and aircraft carriers so damaged ships could be repaired close to the fighting and not have to be towed back thousands of miles to Pearl Harbor.
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