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OodO1 TIL that for the first 10 years that payphones existed, they worked on a honor system and callers would pay for their call after completing it.
lbWN TIL That just under 7/8 of the land on Earth is on one half of the planet. Called “The Land Hemisphere” The other side of the Earth being “The Water Hemisphere”.
9wd7Q TIL Before Memorial Day was made a Federal holiday in 1971, it was mostly known as Decoration Day. It was a traditional day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and family mostly in Appalachian Mountains of the southern US. It also has roots in Liberian, Welsh, Irish and Mormon cultures and religions.
4X98a TIL champion shearer Ian Elkins answered a call put out by RSPCA Australia when a heavily overgrown merino sheep was spotted by a bushwalker. Merino sheep, bred to grow wool, may get infections/flystrike if not shorn; about 80 pounds of fleece was shorn from "Chris" the sheep, a world record.
bL64 TIL that President Johnson, out of respect for his assassinated predecessor, John F. Kennedy, used the Oval Office only as a formal setting with visitors and continued to do most of his work in his vice presidential suite located in the Old Executive Office Building