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TIL: Payphones on every Toronto subway platform have a “Crisis link” button that connects them with a crisis line, in case they are contemplating suicide.

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6EArm TIL that Country Time Lemonade once offered free legal assistance when children’s lemonade stands were being ticketed by local governments. The titled the service, Legalaid.
yQj0J TIL that Lucy's Law bans pet shops and dealers in England from selling puppies and kittens. It was named after Lucy, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who developed fused hips, a curved spine, bald patches and epilepsy after years of mistreatment in the puppy farming system.
kJn1W TIL There is a spot in the retina where the nerves carrying all the information run out, or the blind spot. A King of France amused himself during boring sessions with courtiers by “cutting off their heads” by looking at one and watching another’s head disappear
OGEk1 TIL that a single hamburger patty is made up of meat contributed from about 100 different cows
84DP TIL John Ashcroft, former US Attorney General, lost a Senate Race, as the incumbent, to man who died weeks before the election