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TIL that in the city of Lincoln, IL, a phone booth was installed in the 1960s on the rooftop of City Hall, a 3 story building. Why? Weather watching and reporting. It is still there.

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rRP6o TIL that NBC hired a chimpanzee to co-anchor, 'The Today Show' in the 1950's due to declining ratings. The chimp-human duo was a smash hit, and earned NBC an estimated 100 million dollars over his six years on the show.
PYwZE TIL that wild populations of the Kanab Ambersnail exist in only two small, disconnected areas. One location is a series of small ponds located in a meadow near Kanab, Utah, and the other is at some waterfalls that emerge from the cliff face near the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
mxwxy TIL Ty Burrell‘s (Phil Dunphy from Modern Family) Great-great Grandmother was mulatto child of a slave owner and a thirteen year old slave
RoZ7 TIL the number of syllables per line in the lyrics of “Lateralus” by Tool correspond to an arrangement of the Fibonacci numbers.
Z8N7a TIL that during the soviet era, Polish artists created official movie posters for international movies that were released in Poland. Bypassing governmental control, iconic and unique movie posters emerged, expressing the true spirit of the artists and looking nothing like the original posters.