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TIL Titanic survivors were charged $1 per word to send telegrams from their lifeboat. One man used his last dollar to send the word 'safe' to his mother.

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JY6PQ TIL Rival ice cream truck drivers in Glasgow in the 80s sold drugs from their trucks, shot at each other, and committed arson in the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars.
9YBXQ TIL that Elvis Presley had an identical twin brother who was stillborn
9QOD TIL That the Band ZZ Top during one of their live stage shows decided to have a mixture of live animals, including vultures, buffaloes and rattlesnakes on stage, When a buffalo rammed into a tank full of Rattlesnakes and released them live on stage.
aVQL TIL that Pres. Eisenhower warned unending conflict would allow the Military Industrial Complex to degrade American Freedom.
6868 TIL that after a year of people using NYC’s bikeshare program, riders have gone 14,700,000 mi. and none of them has died.