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TIL Glenn Close's father was a surgeon who worked in Africa with ebola, as well as a very tiny town in Wyoming.

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1mpW TIL of a way to go on strike without leaving work. In “work-to-rule”, employees do the minimum possible required of them, and precisely follow all safety and other regulations. Examples: Refusing overtime, nurses not answering phones, police not issuing citations, taking every legally entitled break
neYYB TIL That Poll Taxes disenfranchised voters as late as 1964 when the 24th Amendment was finally ratified
woddo TIL that several counties in Michigan have nonsense names. 19th century geographer Henry Schoolcraft invented meaningless "Indian-sounding" place names by combining Latin, Arabic, and Ojibwe sounds.
EGgd TIL for the first Moon landing, the average age of NASA controllers was 26 years old.
P1nBL TIL the biggest geomagnetic storm in history caused fires in telegraph stations