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TIL there are "warm lines" for people who really need to talk to someone about mental health but don't have an emergency requiring a crisis hotline

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mxJp TIL NASA chose Cape Canaveral as their launch site because it has a higher linear velocity than other sites in the US.
5Vxj9 TIL about the island of Attu—the Westernmost point of the United States and site of the only WWII land battle on US soil
OG8gX TIL the 1922 film Nosferatu was such a blatant rip off of Bram Stoker's Dracula that Bram's widow won a lawsuit demanding all copies of the film be destroyed. A single copy found its way to America, where Dracula was in the public domain due to copyright error, allowing the film to survive.
dN58 TIL that Moon Wi-Fi, Moon’s Internet Connection, with speed of 19Mbps down, is faster than the United States’ national average.
8e0wL TIL that Detroit has a small canal system