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TIL The “Phone-a-Friend” lifeline on Who Wants to be a Millionaire was removed because the friend would often use the internet (instead of their own knowledge) to find the correct answer.

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E1l4W TIL Not only can you eat dandelions raw(or make a tea etc.), but that they are pretty nutritious and can even stimulate digestion / bile flow.
BgWJL TIL about Len Koenecke, a Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder who died in 1935 from a blow to the head when he tried to seize control of an airplane
nWNZ7 TIL of Ada Blackjack, an indigenous woman sent on an expedition with 4 men to an Arctic island in 1921, within two years she was the sole survivor after facing -50 degree weather, being stalked and hunted by polar bears, and learning to hunt and trap despite no previous knowledge
4d1b TIL that an invention called the Radiovota would have essentially allowed 1930’s radio listeners to up-/downvote broadcasts.
E9Dw TIL color laser printers print a watermark on every page that identifies the printer to ease government fears of forgery.