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TIL Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman

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DQOGY TIL of the Telecommunications Relay Service, a free service for all of the US and its territories, which lets people with hearing/speech disabilities to make phone calls
BrMek TIL Winston Churchill was nearly killed in a car accident in NY in 1931 after trying to cross the street and look at the wrong side of the road forgetting he was in the US and not in the UK where driving directions are reversed.
kY6W TIL that the United States is the only high-income country (and one of eight in the world) that does not provide paid maternal leave.
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