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TIL Manhattan's 4 last remaining phone booths are free of charge

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dDjwj TIL that in 1956, a man named Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a plane from New Jersey, flew it into Manhattan, and landed it in front of a bar as part of a drunken bet. Two years later, he did it again for the same bet
kL5e TIL that the company who created the Etch A Sketch was about to go bankrupt, right before they signed a deal with Pixar to have their product shown in Toy Story in 1995. The scene was only 12 seconds long, but it gave the company a 20% sales increase that saved the company.
617 TIL that in 1980, an oil drilling rig in Louisiana accidentally broke through into an underground salt mine and ended up draining a lake, like pulling the plug on a giant bathtub.
LdgZ TIL it is illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a crime in the USA
Z4Yp TIL that former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke authored a self-help sex manual for women on how to perform fellatio and anal sex under the pen-name of Dorothy Vanderbilt.