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TIL that sending text messages doesn’t cost cell phone providers any extra money. The text message “piggy backs” on data that the provider always sends.

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R5dbj TIL a pack of stray Chihuahuas terrorized Maryvale, AZ in 2014
4wrX TIL that today in Confederate Park, Fort Mill SC, there is a monument to “faithful slaves” that fought for the “principles of our Confederate States of America.”
DVpj TIL that some homosexual concentration camp prisoners were forced to serve out the remainder of their sentences after liberation and end of WW2
LQMbV TIL that the library career of the creator of the Dewey Decimal system, Melvil Dewey ended in disgrace, because of his groping of female librarians. Dewey also insisted on seeing photographs of the women before he would hire them, to determine if they were attractive or not.
VBKok TIL that daylight savings time has its own timezones and DST observing places must make a conversion for schedules notated in standard time in spring/summer of the same “zone”.