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TIL as recently as 1990, single digit phone numbers existed in the UK

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Zp7wG TIL about Jambo, a gorilla that protected a child who fell into his enclosure in 1986
pK8Q TIL in WW2 the Germans had a secret base in Norway developing nuclear weapons until a small group of Norwegian commandos blew it up in the middle of the winter.
0dW5N TIL that in 2016 a rat broke into an ATM and ate $19,000 worth of cash
E1AMx TIL that Archimedes of Syracuse discovered Calculus 2000 years before Newton did, however this knowledge was unknown until 1907 when a book containing some of his lost works was found in Constantinoples.
reyd TIL a reporter once asked Darius Rucker what he thought of the Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum told Bart the Hootie and the Blowfish tape was cheaper than a blank tape; Rucker said it’s one of his favorites: “Bart Simpson said the name of my band. That was worth anything.”