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TIL the UK has separate area codes just for cell phones.

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nwXd TIL that there are two libraries in Portugal that use resident bat colonies to protect the books from insects.
gM0PA TIL Harry R. Truman refused to leave his lodge at the base of Mount St. Helens in Washington state despite evacuation orders due to its seismic activity, saying to reporters "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it." He was killed by the pyroclastic flow from the eruption on May 18th, 1980.
AJXl TIL El Paso, TX was once considered the second-safest city in America. Meanwhile, the Mexican city with which it shares a border, Juarez, had one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Eg5ap TIL that during the filming of the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted Danny Trejo's mom passed away. Danny managed to keep it all together when people on set gave him their condolences, until Kermit offered his own, which caused him to run to the bathroom to bawl his eyes out.
PYWaw TIL that the loudest word shouted is 'quiet' by a teacher trying to make her pupils stop talking. It reached 121 dB which is barley louder than thunder clapping.