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TIL Jim Cummings, The voice actor for Winnie the pooh, calls sick kids in hospitals and talks to them in character.

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WQQ9 TIL there’s a debt collection agency that helps you get a job, fixes your heating, and helps you pay your debt in a non-tyrannical way. “The number one problem we hear from customers is that they don’t have enough money to pay their bills.”
9wwA7 TIL that the phrase ‘involuntary celibate’ was coined by Alana, a ‘nerdy queer woman’ who had never been on a date, and who wanted a name for her loneliness and the loneliness of others like her.
D16EJ TIL of Jerome Motto, who was an American psychiatrist and conducted the first suicide prevention intervention that reduced deaths by suicide.
yQP9M TIL About John Cromwell, an American WWII submarine commander who chose to go down with his submarine rather than be captured by the Japanese, fearing he wouldn’t be able to withhold secrets under interrogation
nbo9 TIL of Harold Hering, a nuclear missile crewman who was kicked out of the military for asking “How can I know that an order to launch my missiles came from a sane president?”