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

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kOJL5 TIL Apple is Warren Buffett's most valuable investments
BrpJd TIL that a woman, whose husband died fighting the Nazis, requested to be allowed to drive a tank to avenge her husband. She proved herself a skilled tank driver, died from injuries obtained in battle, and was posthumously named Hero of the Soviet Union.
v1MXj TIL There is a conspiracy theory that Eminem died in 2006 and has been replaced by a clone
vP1A7 TIL ventriloquists have to carefully script their acts to avoid words with any "f", "v", "b", "p", or "m" sounds. These consonants require the lips to move, which would ruin the act.
XEddD TIL: the federation process that saw the creation of the nation of Australia originally involved Fiji and New Zealand. they chose not to join.