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

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VpE4 TIL that “TIME"magazine is an acronym that stands for The International Magazine of Events.
X04W8 TIL about Denny (Denisova 11), the only fossil ever discovered from a first-generation Neanderthal-Denisovan offspring
g7yA TIL that Malcolm X and possible Martin Luther King Jr. were planning on bringing the US Government in front of the United Nations on charges of human rights violations against African Americans
Oo6x1 TIL of André Tchaikowsky, a Polish pianist who donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company after his death, as he wanted it to be used for Yorick in productions of Hamlet. It took 26 years for his wishes to be realized as no one wanted to use it. In 2008, David Tennant finally used it.
DQ0Vv TIL Mexico didn't recognize millions of descendents of African peoples they enslaved...until 2019. And the UN basically had to shame them into doing it.