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TIL that it is still possible to lease a rotary phone from AT&T

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nWELB TIL that Apple Macintosh family is named after the McIntosh, which is the national apple of Canada.
gAYb TIL: “The film that killed John Wayne”, The Conqueror was shot downwind from the main site for Atomic Testing. of a crew of 200, 91 had died from cancer within 18 years, including The Duke.
1aOjP TIL in 2007 after Johnny Depp's daughter recovered from a serious E. Coli infection, Depp dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow to spend 4 hours in the hospital reading stories to sick children, and donated £1 million to that hospital.
b90YE TIL First 13 Chernobyl firefighters were taken to Moscow and were treated according to Dr. Robert Gale's instructions and only 2 survived. Second group of 11 firefighters were taken to Kiev and were treated by a different method - all 11 were saved.
GmAg TIL secular Mohammad Mosaddegh was a democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the US CIA for nationalizing the Iranian oil industry. Iran has not known democracy since.