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TIL that Greg Biffle used a private helicopter to deliver supplies to stranded victims of Hurricane Helene in parts of western North Carolina

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e0mmb TIL that the practice of playing music for callers on hold began with a faulty phone line connection. A loose wire touching the steel frame of an office building caused it to act as a giant radio receiver, allowing callers to hear music from local radio stations while they waited on hold.
aD8M TIL that in 1990, Mobil Oil bought a BMW 3 series to test their new synthetic oil on. They drove it a million miles on a treadmill for four years.
Oooje Toxic air is already a serious problem for Americans. Every year, about 200,000 people in the U.S. suffer an early death because of air pollution, according to a 2013 study, and poisonous particles have also been connected to lung and heart disease.
gMD5W TIL diaeresis mark (the two little dots above a vowel) indicates that the second vowel should be pronounced independently of the first. Some examples are naïve, and the given names Chloë and Zoë
GANDJ TIL the Cayman Islands own $285.3B in U.S debt and ranks 7th in amount owned by foreign states.