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TIL about Callin’ Oates: the emergency Hall and Oates hotline (+1-719-266-2837)

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V05k TIL ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ by Van Morrison is about an interracial relationship and was originally titled 'Brown Skinned Girl’
1aZXV TIL: A Russian man saved the world by ignoring the commands of a missile detection system. His gut instincts were correct. it was a false alarm. There were no nukes coming from the United States. It was some clouds that fooled the sensors.
a8JyZ TIL about Scombroid food poisoning, which causes an allergy-like reaction to seafood. It is usually caused by improper storage/processing of raw seafood, which allow high levels of histamines to develop and cause allergic reaction-like symptoms when consumed.
dD8YZ TIL the animal with the strongest sense of smell is the African Elephant followed by the rat and the cow
Wk64o TIL of Ben Salomon, an army dentist who earned the Medal of Honor in World War 2. When his field hospital was about to be overrunned, he manned a machine gun and killed 98 Japanese soldiers. He died, but not before his wounded colleagues were evacuated.