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TIL Hotel employees, especially housekeeping staff, wear panic buttons to keep themselves safe while working in places such as enclosed or isolated environments.

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yDre TIL: The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad was known as the “Little Giant"since the tonnage that it moved was out of proportion to its route mileage. It operated around one tenth of one percent of the nation’s railroad miles, it hauled around one percent of its tonnage.
1aPkd TIL: Archaeologist Alexander Peev was executed by firing squad in 1943 on suspicion of sending a coded message to the Soviet Union. It was actually an ancient inscription he wanted Russian archaeologists to help him interpret. The text remains undeciphered.
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