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TIL Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Claude Rains, and Herbert Marshall all served in the London Scottish Regiment in World War I. All won medals for valor, and all but Rathbone were wounded. Rains got his trademark husky voice because his vocal cords had been paralyzed in a poison gas attack.

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DXNp TIL, in 2005, the Tri-Cities government decided to start their own internet service. Comcast and SBC fought back with “push polls” asking residents “Should tax money be allowed to provide pornographic movies for residents?” They defeated the referendum and Comcast raised cable rates over 30 percent.
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0E55 TIL after professional golfer Ben Hogan threw himself across his car to cover his wife during a head-on collision with a bus, the doctors told him he might never walk again, let alone play golf. He went on to win the US Open the following year.
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