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TIL that in 2007, Sprint sent a letter to their worst pain in the ass customers and told them that they were waiving the early termination fee and canceling their accounts.

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neLB TIL that one of Australia’s most decorated snipers was initially barred from joining the Army during WW1 because of his race. He was only accepted after a recruitment officer reclassified him as “White.”
wBNE TIL that the “we ain’t found shit!” trooper from Spaceballs is Tim Russ, who also played Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager
pYAl4 TIL That from the 1940s to the 1960s Lysol was used as contraception and a feminine hygiene product.
BBQD TIL the American Family aSsociation began auto-correcting every instance of the word “gay” with “homosexual” within reposted articles on their news site, which led to them publishing an articles about Olympic sprinter Tyson Homosexual and basketball star Rudy Homosexual.
bomE TIL that C. S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia series) was an adamant atheist, until attending Oxford, when his closest friend, J. R. R. Tolkien (author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) convinced him to convert to Christianity.