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TIL The phone number from Glenn Miller bands song "Pennsylvania 6-5000", is still in use, and is in fact the oldest working phone number. Has been working since 1930's. It connects you to Hotel Pennsylvania.

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LQA00 TIL Neapolitan ice cream was invented in Prussia, not Italy
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j69Vp TIL a small group of defense witnesses regularly testify against mainstream medical opinion in shaken baby cases over whether infants can be fatally injured through shaking alone
O7Q7 TIL that there is a unit of American currency called a “Mill” that is worth 1/10 of a cent. Although there haven’t been physical coins in use since the 1960’s, it is still occasionally used (gas prices are usually posted in mills).