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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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XaXR TIL: Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the USA, literally owned his wife. Slave Julia Chinn was 1/8ths African and was inherited by Johnson after his father’s death. Interracial marriage was illegal, so Johnsonn kept her as his “slave.”
b9vK0 TIL that an anonymous Brit drew penises around potholes in Manchester to force authorities to stop delaying fixing them. It worked
LbR0 TIL that a solid 8 hour sleep is actually unnatural to us as a species. A 4 hour sleep, waking for 1-2 hours, followed by another 4 hour sleep is how we slept for the majority of evolution. The change to a solid 8 hour sleep was originally attributed to improvements in lighting and other things.
lokBK TIL The cockroach can live without food for one month and 45 minutes without air; if we tear off cockroach head, it can live another 7 days because most of the nerve cells are located in cockroach abdomen. They are about five times more resistant to radiation than humans.