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TIL If You Swear at Apple’s Automated Customer Service,They’ll Put You Through to a Human

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7RoP TIL in a 1973 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man saves his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, from falling to her death by shooting a web down to catch her… but the sudden deceleration breaks her neck and kills her.
66N8 TIL on New Years Eve of 1999, Brad Pitt played a prank where he bribed the Mexican Government to cut the power and phone lines of a resort and send in troops to arrest one of his friends on drug charges.
j6XjX TIL that telegraph operators fell in love, got married, and even had sexual encounters over the telegraph, much in the same way people do today through messaging and social networks
DkPp TIL of the Battle of Saragarhi, in which 21 Sikh Soldiers faced over 10,000 Afghans, and killed 600 of them, whilst facing certain death
D1BMp TIL in 2015 Sobe beverages in the US apologised for a joke that backfired. Some customers started voicing their concern after finding "Help me, Trapped in SoBe factory" under the lids of some of their bottles. Turns out the cry for help was intentionally put there by the company as a marketing ploy.