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TIL the very first phone call was between the head of Motorola to his rival at Bell Laboratories to brag, "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone."

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QAwE TIL that Bayer promoted heroin to children and marketed it as a ‘strong cold medicine’ and 'the best cure for bronchitis.’
xNG1 TIL That between 1980- 2010 the bodies of over 500 missing women were discovered off of US highways, thought to have been murdered by serial killers who drive OTR Semis.
x6Bv0 TIL that about 12% of spices brought to the U.S. are contaminated with insects, rodent hairs and other things.
yQaRJ TIL about Rosie Ruiz, a woman who won the Boston Marathon in 1980. It turns out, she cheated and simply hopped in a cab and only pretended to run the race. She hopped out 1/2 of a mile away and jogged to her trophy(which was subsequently taken away 8 days later).
ob9R TIL as of 2011, there are still ~170 trees in Hiroshima that survived the atomic bomb; they are called the ‘Hibakujumoku’