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TIL there are emergency hotlines for Hall and Oats, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and Chicago. You can listen to their songs in an emergency.

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ZpWxY TIL for weeks, no one was able to identify what ailed a community of sick chimpanzees in Uganda, even as the animals had began to die. But researchers eventually discovered the body of an adult female & were able to determine that more than 12% of the community had been killed by the common cold.
58yp TIL the movie Ghost Dad starring Bill Cosby was directed by Sidney Poitier. Critically panned and called one of the worst movies of all time, Sidney Poitier never directed again.
D7wv TIL In the 1960s, a convent in L.A. agreed to a psychology experiment where the nuns were encouraged to verbalize and respond to their emotions. Within a year more than half the nuns had petitioned to be released from their vows and all that remained was a “small group of radical lesbian nuns.”
loGlr TIL in WW2, the British made their plane's external fuel tanks out of paper-mache, to save metal
YYkG TIL Mexico built a big fence on their Southern border with Guatamala to keep smugglers and contraband out