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TIL about the unsung 'Brendas' who answered obscene helpline calls

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GApO5 TIL The bald eagle’s role as a national symbol is linked to its 1782 landing on the Great Seal of the US. Charles Thomson chose the best elements of the various designs. Thomson recommended that the small, white eagle used in William Barton’s design be replaced with an American bald eagle.
KYRva TIL about Gail Halvorsen, known as the "Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" who began dropping candy on little handkerchief parachutes to kids in West Berlin during the Soviet Blockade (1948-1949). His impromptu "Operation Little Vittles" eventually dropped 23 tons of candy.
pMrp TIL an Australian doctor has set up a real-life Dallas-Buyers-Club-style group to enable patients with hepatitis C to buy imported curative generic drugs for a fraction of the cost
woNPo TIL about the Whisky War, when Canada and Denmark took turns planting a flag & bottles of booze on an island that was disputed territory.
6RG7 TIL that in the 1870s, a woman named Nellie Cashman organized and led a party of six to take 1500 lbs of supplies to 26 miners stranded in the B.C. mountains by a snowstorm, after the Canadian Army refused to act because it was too dangerous.