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TIL Mr. Rogers once sued the Ku Klux Klan for pretending to be him

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5eWn TIL A woman once called 911 because her ex boyfriend was threatening her with a knife and after three hours of no police showing up and having to repeatedly call 911 the dispatcher ended the call by saying “I really don’t give a shit what happens to you”
neJpd TIL William Shockley, a co-inventor of the transistor, decided to cease silicon-based research. The remaining researchers disagreed with him and went on to form Intel, AMD and National Semiconductor.
RO5w TIL Canada has sold hundreds of millions of tons of asbestos to developing and 3rd world countries with no regulations against the cancer causing substance with no warning, while knowing fully well the dangers of the product.
nWEMG TIL that ancient people believed that there was a type of Amber (Lyngurium) made of petrified cat urine
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