› added 8 years ago

276

TIL that if you call 9-1-1 in Massachusetts and you are unable to speak, you can communicate by pressing numbers on your phone: 1 for police, 2 for fire, and 3 for ambulance; 4 for yes and 5 for no.

Read more snopes.com

via ift.tt

bWYE TIL Bobby Murcer promised to hit a home run for a terminally ill young fan before a game in 1977—and he hit two of them! The announcers went nuts. There was only one problem—that’s how the boy found out he was dying.
Y77er TIL about the Haber–Bosch process which allows for the creation of ammonia easily. Which is one of the key factors in the massively increased agriculture ability of the modern era as the ammonia is often used in fertiliser.
b6R50 TIL It took 6 hours for Marilyn Monroe's body to reach the morgue. It should have only taken 45 minutes.
ZZ5R TIL Tootsie Roll has no idea where the rumor about free suckers for wrappers with indians/stars on them came from, and simply returns redemption letters with a let down note
XE7Q TIL That the man who blew the whistle on alleged widespread phone hacking perpetrated by Murdoch’s “The News of the World” was found dead in his London home. The Prime Minister had ties to Murdoch, and the Scotland Yard investigated the death.