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TIL On 911, US Speaker Hasert desperately tried to contact the Vice President to discuss emergency operations at the US Capitol until his phone line was interrupted. Thinking it was coming from the White House, he answered, only to discover a random citizen complaining about high taxes and pollution

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aQx9 TIL that in 1996, a three year old boy fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo. The child was rescued by a mother gorilla who cradled him until the zookeepers arrived.
RGP4 TIL: According to physics there may exist the opposite of a black hole which cannot be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from it. It is aptly named: a white hole.
78GXP TIL Tattooed individuals were experimentally found to be more short-sighted and impulsive than the non-tattooed
W7wZd TIL of the 5 known assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth II, the one that came closest to succeeding was attempted by a 17-year-old New Zealander, who shot at her with a .22 calibre rifle, but missed so badly that nobody even realised shots were fired.
8P6K TIL that a Japanese scientist made a replica of Tokyo using oat flakes to represent population centers and bright light to represent mountains, water, and other obstacles on a dish. When he placed a living slime mold in the model, it created a network that resembled Tokyo’s rail system.