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TIL Golden Retrievers originated from Scotland

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womZ1 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and horrifyingly, thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.
EgZbp TIL they made a "Clerks" TV show that was so bad they never even aired the pilot episode.
DRXP TIL that a judge used pictures from a botched execution using the electrical chair to convince the state of Florida to not use that method anymore for executions.
X5AR TIL There is a bill known as the “Cheeseburger Bill” which makes it illegal for people to sue food companies for making them obese.
jNVav TIL The Queen of England has someone who breaks in her shoes for her before she wears them ,”...the shoes have to be immediately comfortable and to achieve this, a member of staff with the same size feet will trot up and down palatial corridors for her until they are suitably broken in.”