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TIL that calling 999 from an Android device texts the emergency services with your location data

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E174d TIL the word "hundred" hasn't always referred to exactly 100 it was sometimes 120. 120 can now be called a "Long Hundred"
PjMe TIL Airlines legally have to give you up to $1,500 in cash AND a free flight to your destination when a flight is overbooked and you’re booted from your flight. By accepting the free miles or signing forms they give you you’re forfeiting your rights.
Bra4r TIL The first suicide bomber in history was an Indian Queen who set herself on fire and ran into an ammunition's storehouse to kill the British in 1780.
OKbe TIL that nannies would masturbate their children to put them to sleep up until the seventeenth century.
VMvr4 TIL In 1902, The 70th Miracle At Our Lady Of Lourdes In France Converted Nobel Prize-Winning Doctor, Dr. Carrell To Faith When Marie Bailly, Suffering From Acute Tuberculous Peritonitis Was Miraculously Healed With ‘Holy Water’ & Officially Declared Supernatural.