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TIL That Verizon refused to help search for a 62 disabled patient because he had an unpaid bill on his phone

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xe0w TIL UPS gets 15,000 parking tickets in New York a month
R5xL4 TIL that the US Navy refused to cooperate with the filming of the movie Crimson Tide (1995), so getting officially sanctioned footage of a submarine wasn’t possible. Instead, the film crew waited at a naval base until a submarine was actually put to sea and pursued it in a boat and helicopter.
Lky5Q TIL about Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist who thought up the theory of evolution by natural selection. After recording his expedition findings in the mid 1800’s, Wallace sent his work to his confidant Charles Darwin for a second opinion. Their first paper was a joint effort.
8eaeK TIL English is not an official language of New Zealand despite it being spoken by 90% of the population.The two official languages are Te reo Māori and NZ sign language.
11GW TIL that the famous astronomer Fritz Zwicky liked to insult people by calling them ‘spherical bastards’, because “they were bastards no matter which way you looked at them.”