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TIL there is a 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia where cell phones and Wi-FI are banned.

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Er4P TIL Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during WWII, saved over 6000 lives by unlawfully issuing travel visas. When his consulate was being shut down and he had to evacuate, witness claim he was still writing visas and throwing them out the window as the train was pulling away.
R5Lp9 TIL that Ramjit Raghav was the oldest father, he had his first child with his wife at age 94, and had a second child at age 96. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 104
PYOJw TIL a British company sold 1500 magic bomb-detecting dowsing rods to Iraq in 2008 and 2009, for more than £50 million.
ObM4 TIL in the movie Galaxy Quest (1999), the scene where Tim Allen’s character overhears the convention goers calling him and the show’s cast “nobodies” and claiming the cast “couldn’t stand him” actually happened to William Shatner when he attended a Star Trek convention.
JjYl TIL that a house subcommittee met to try to eliminate the U.S. $1 bill. Reportedly switching to the $1 coin would save us 4.4 billion dollars over 30 years.