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TIL that you can dial 911 in Australia and you still connect to emergency’s 000

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xVpd5 TIL that in 18th and 19th century Europe, grave robbing became such a pressing issue that elaborate traps were invented by the graveyard workers to kill those who tried to dig up the recently buried corpses.
E1PL7 TIL in 1977 David Begelman, then head of Columbia Pictures, was caught embezzling $75,000 from the studio. To avoid a scandal he was quietly fired, and three years later became CEO of MGM. The actor who discovered his embezzlement was Blacklisted by the studio for reporting it to the police.
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