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TIL that in 1915 a three minute, long distance phone call cost the equivalent of $500 in today’s money

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Yp7DP TIL: There is designated spot monitored by local PD in San Diego, for online trades that happen through Craigslist etc.
nw8P TIL Lewis Lee Millett deserted the US Army when he thought they would not enter WW2 and joined the Canadian Army to fight. After the US Army joined WW2 he transferred back. In the Korean war he would be awarded the Medal Of Honor for leading the last major bayonet charge in American history.
7rvoO TIL about Polish photographer Zofia Rydet, who at the age of 67 began her project 'Sociological Record' to document every household in Poland. She took over 20,000 photographs before her death in 1997.
epAeJ TIL Michelle Pfeiffer stayed away from all talk shows to promote her movies for over 15 years. She was on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in the early 1980's and avoided public interviews until 1997 when she appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell show to promote "A Thousand Acres."
0d8gp TIL that the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was killed after being struck by an arrow poisoned with manchineel sap. A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, "little apple of death". This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most toxic trees in the world.