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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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kJvrg TIL that the U.S. leads the world in UFO sightings by a huge margin
x6L5D TIL that the corporate takeover of American politics began in 1971 when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, a corporate attorney, to draft a memo on the state of the country. His memo argued that American business was "under broad attack" from consumer, labor and environmental groups.
M7EDV TIL in 1953 Nazi rocket-physicist Wernher von Braun wrote a sci-fi book called Project Mars. In it, the Mars colony has a leader known as 'the Elon.'
WQ9d TIL 65-85% of all white cats born with blue eyes are deaf.
Ogy7 TIL the Aztecs once fed 200K people in inarable swampy land by creating floating gardens they farmed extensively