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TIL: There’s a free 24-hour emergency Hall and Oates hotline (719-26-OATES) that will play a selection of songs for you in their entirety. It’s called Callin’ Oates.

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GAeJQ TIL that King Henry VIII’s first living child was a boy named Henry born on New Year’s Day 1511. His Godfather King Louis XI of France gave him a gold cup weighing almost 7 pounds. The child lived only 52 days.
womE6 TIL that in 2018, Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini, and this was partially to prevent confusion with Switzerland.
VwMp TIL that Allied forces planted a uniformed corpse with a briefcase in Spanish waters so it could be found and the contents of the briefcase would be leaked to the Germans in order to fool them of the Allies next moves. The idea came from Ian Fleming.
9wBwr TIL that in 1995, a man received a "check" for $95,000 as junk mail. Jokingly, he deposited it into his account. The "check" met all of the legal criteria for a check and was cashed.
XEoJP TIL Charles S. Dutton went from "jail to Yale." While in solitary he picked up an anthology of black playwrights. He convinced the warden to start a drama group, later earning a Master's degree in acting from Yale. He has starred in films by David Fincher, Robert Altman, and Guillermo del Toro.