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TIL 1-800-Collect is still a thing and their site still features all their old 90’s commercials with Phil Hartman, Arsenio Hall and Mr. T

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v1WD7 TIL the turning point that pushed Boston to dig under its streets and open America’s first subway on September 1, 1897, was Frank Sprague’s invention, the Dynamo Electric Machine.
BXnW TIL that a wanted pimp had such a sophisticated pattern lock on his android phone that the FBI was unable to crack it. They had to serve Google with a warrant to try and help them.
9PmQ TIL there is an area in Canada with less gravity than the rest of the Earth
x6Oj1 TIL about the big sun dial in Cranmer Park in Denver, Colorado, which actually keeps time. The current sundial is the second one as the original donated in 1941 was destroyed by vandals with dynamite in 1965. A replcament was installed in 1966 after a citywide fundraising effort.
x6NXb TIL the survivors of a wrecked whaling ship were so afraid of non-existent cannibals on much closer pacific islands that they chose to sail a considerably larger distance. This resulted in only five of seventeen surviving and, ironically, the survivors resorting to cannibalism.