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TIL The person who invented the automated telephone exchange, an undertaker, came up with the idea when he started losing customers to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was intercepting and redirecting everyone’s calls

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N7aA6 TIL of Sidney Gottlieb, who headed the CIA’s MK-Ultra LSD mind control experiments. Known as the "Black Sorcerer" and the "Dirty Trickster,” he retired to an ecologically friendly home, where he raised goats, ate yogurt and advocated peace and environmentalism. He also ran a leper hospital in India.
VBX84 TIL the role of King's Champion exists in the UK. In early years their role was to answer challenges to rightful rule of the Sovereign during the Coronation.
N7WV8 TIL despite what the song American song, "Home, home on the range" says, antelope do not occur in the Americas
oBLOW TIL sandplay therapy, the playing with sand & objects in a tray, can facilitate a healing process as the unconscious expresses itself in the sand & influences the sand player. The effectiveness of play therapy is comparable to that of psychotherapy
7rwWZ TIL a first time deer hunter named Sergio Martinez, who got lost in the woods of San Diego county in 2003, set a small fire to signal rescuers. The fire quickly got out of control and became the Cedar Fire burning nearly 300,000 acres of land, destroying more than 2200 homes and killing 15 people.