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TIL Telephone Party Lines Were Once High Entertainment - neighboring family's had to share 1 phone line in 20th century up in north country area due to telephone company's saying it was too expensive for individual installation. Each family had own 'ring tone' and could listen in on each other.

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0wBJv TIL The 1941 American movie drama 'Citizen Kane' was originally a box office flop. The movie failed to recoup its cost at the box office. Radio City Music Hall's management refused to screen Citizen Kane for its premiere. Today, Citizen Kane is considered the Greatest American Film of All Time.
lJP1 TIL Pirates wore gold and silver earrings to pay for their funerals if they were to wash ashore.
wooG1 TIL birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs; birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropods.
5VoLk TIL Duct tape was invented by an Illinois mom during WW2. She had to write a letter to FDR explaining how it's easier for soldiers(including her sons) to pull her tape off in battle without using a knife.
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