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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

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wojJP TIL the first presidential debate in the United States was held in 1960, and debates between US presidential candidates were not held regularly until 1976
97jp TIL a British woman was sued for biting off a man’s nose after he tried to kiss her without consent. She won and the judge ruled “When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose”
ObPX TIL that chickens are now about 3 times more efficient at turning feed into breast meat than their counterparts in the 1950s. As a result, they are massively bigger than they were decades ago.
N7Eeb TIL that over 1 million people are buried on a small island in NY. Hart Island has been home to a confederate prison, asylum and “boys reformatory” dating as far back as 1869. Many of New York’s most vulnerable have found their way to this island and are laid in mass graves 3 caskets deep.
E1XPV Today I learned of a ww2 navy officer who escaped a POW camp in full uniform by pretending to be a Bulgarian officer named I Bugaroff