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TIL Telemarketers have caused some people to begin only answering calls from numbers that they actually recognize on their caller-ID displays, preventing emergency calls and calls from loved ones using pay-phones or someone else’s phone from getting through

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WkMjX TIL that Steve Martin's wedding came as a surprise to his guests. The roughly 75 star-studded attendees (including the likes of Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, and Carl Reiner) said that he had invited them to his house just for a "party." To their shock, upon their arrival his wedding began.
rRd7M TIL that the world's first mental health hospital was built in Baghdad, Iraq in 705 AD. While mental health patients were being condemned, punished, and even burned in Europe, 8th and 9th century mental health patients in Iraq, Egypt, and Syria were given more proper hospitalization and treatment.
nWNQ9 TIL SDH subtitles means Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of hearing, which is why those subtitles feature ambient noises such as grunts, sighs, PA announcement etc and speaker identification while watching content.
9YaYG TIL that pathologist Jack Kevorkian publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide and because of this was often portrayed in the media with the name of "Dr. Death". He said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999.
pJkZ TIL When Quincy Jones called to ask Eddie Van Halen to do the guitar solo on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Van Halen thought it was a prank call and called Jones an asshole before hanging up on him.