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TIL that Father's Day sees the most collect calls

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Brkpk TIL Betty White was good friends with famed author John Steinbeck. White's husband Allen Ludden attended the same school as Steinbeck's wife Elaine. The couples became close friends and Steinbeck gave an early draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday.
xVrV0 TIL there are actually two measurements called the 'foot' in the US - the 'international foot' (.3048 meters) and the 'US survey foot' (1200/3937 meters). One international foot is approximately .999998 US Survey feet.
X05Mk TIL that the Miracle of the Sun happened in Portugal in 1917. Three children saw the Virgin Mary on the 13th of each month. On October 13th, around 70,000 people witnessed extraordinary solar phenomena for 10 minutes, followed by reported healings and conversions.
oemR TIL that the English word “Orange” was the name for the fruit for at least a few hundred years before it was the name of a color.
OorZ6 TIL the last known living survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Matilda McCrear, was abducted from Nigeria at the age of two and died in Selma, Alabama in 1940