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TIL that Father’s Day (tomorrow) is the busiest day for collect calls in the US.

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4XWPw TIL: About the Grays Harbor Lighthouse, in Westport, WA. At 107 feet tall, it's not the tallest but its light is powered by a 35 watt bulb that can be seen for 19 miles or 31km.
5VODQ TIL that the UK government began to buy and nationalise over 300 pubs in 1916 because they felt the nation's workers' excessive drinking was having a detrimental effect on the war effort
4vmJ TIL Clerks was made for $27,575, mostly funded by credit cards in Kevin Smith’s name, proceeds from selling his comic collection, a family donation and paychecks from the stores the film is about.
E1O97 TIL Paul Bettany was told by a movie producer that "his career was over" and he was "done in Hollywood". As he sat down in the sidewalk minutes later, Joss Whedon called him and asked if he wanted to be Vision in "Age of Ultron".
QKBE TIL as a result of the ambiguous boundary between the U.S. and Canada, in 1832, a region of territory in northern New Hampshire declared independence as a sovereign state named the Republic of Indian Stream