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

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dKJB TIL that if you invested $1000 with Warren Buffet in 1966, you would have $6.4 Billion
b6Md9 TIL Abe Vigoda, who played Salvatore Tessio in the Godfather, was not mentioned during the In Memoriam segment at the Oscars after he died.
PY6YO TIL that after the filming of "2001 a Space Odyssey", director Stanley Kubrick destroyed nearly all of the film's props so that they wouldn't be used for "lesser" science-fiction films in the future.
pYr98 TIL that fierce battles between axis and soviet forces continued in Czechoslovakia well after the German Surrender of 9 May, with tens of thousands of further casualties
nMgB TIL of Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who saved President Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981. Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service by the 1939 movie ‘Code of the Secret Service’… which starred a young Ronald Reagan.