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TIL an app exists where you can call and wake up strangers.

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N9l1 TIL I learned that the Californian tried to warn surrounding ships about ice but were told to ‘shut up’ by Titanic’s operator 40 mins before collision
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E1dy7 TIL of a town named Agloe, New York. It doesn't sound all that special until you find out that it doesn't exist! . A town Map Makers made up to catch people infringing on their copyrighted maps! Its an example of a Paper Town
EKep TIL at the age of 17, Richard Dean Anderson rode his bike 5,641 miles from Minnesota to Alaska. Starting out with friends, he travelled the last 33 days alone.
PYZ8J TIL that in 1987, Ruud Gullit won the Ballon d'Or and dedicated the trophy to Nelson Mandela, who was in jail at the time. When people criticized him for taking a political stance, he explained that to him, it wasn't about politics, but simply a human decision