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TIL that in 2019 the NHS was using 10% of the world's pagers.

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KYY5Q TIL the John Harvard statue at Harvard University is called the Statue of Three Lies because he didn't found the college, and he wasn't a major benefactor having bequeathed his library of books and a sum of money to the fledgling college. Further, the statue is not of John Harvard.
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