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TIL: Special Monopoly sets helped tens of thousands of Allied POWs escape in WWII

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161l8 TIL that in the French town of Sarpourenx, a person cannot die there without purchasing a plot due to the lack of space in cemeteries there.
d8Or8 TIL When the # and * keys were first put on phones they had no purpose whatsoever and were only included because touch tone phones could create up to twelve tones.
awa6N TIL on Nov 22, 1963 while watching TV reports of JFK's death, Annie Shapiro had a stroke and slipped into a coma. 29 years later she awoke in bed as a 79 year old grandmother still married to her husband. Her first words upon sitting up were "Turn on the television. I want to watch I Love Lucy"
7rdPO TIL that the US and the UK each acquire statistics regarding foodborne illnesses in such different ways that researchers basically cannot compare each country's results to the other's.
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