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TIL On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

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7r4VO TIL that No Kum-Sok, the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft, received a $100,000 reward from Operation Moolah in 1953. He landed the wrong way on the runway: had he tried to land in the right direction, he would have been spotted and shot down.
OoNPY TIL That English has a subtle stress pattern to identify the Noun or Verb in a related word. For example Record; Record (N) and Record ; Contract (N) and ConTract (V) ; Refuse (N) and Refuse.
PjPZ TIL By law, no United States officer is allowed to outrank George Washington, who posthumously became a six-star general.
OdlR TIL that the words for each parent “mama” and “papa” are very similar in languages all around the world and developed independently. All human babies “baby talk”, and these first sounds are mistaken as real “first” words by adults. Ex: Mandarin Chinese dad=baba, mom=mama.
YleB TIL: In 1992, a UK regulation required dance clubs to provide free water and chill-out rooms in response to a number of Ecstasy-related injuries and deaths