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TIL that Frank Sinatra carried 10 dimes with him at all times and was even buried with 10 dimes in his pocket. This habit stemmed from the 1963 kidnapping of his son where the kidnappers only communicated by payphone, and Sinatra worried he would not have enough coins for the calls.

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Oyve TIL that in 1972 three men hijacked an American DC-9 and demanded it be flown to Cuba where they hoped to strike a deal with Castro using the large ransom. Instead, Castro had them arrested and returned the aircraft, passengers, and money to the United States.
mMwM TIL there are more than 200 corpses on Mount Everest. They are used as trail markers for climbers and many of the bodies have earned nicknames.
xV5Ao TIL that the Austrian Embassy in London has been at 18 Belgrave Square since 1866. It is the only Austrian embassy still in place since the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
rRKlw TIL that in 1958, Bank of America mass mailed 60,000 unsolicited credit cards, with a credit line of $500, to residents of Fresno, California. They chose Fresno so that if the plan failed, it wouldn’t get much media coverage. The program was wildly successful and marked the birth of Visa.
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