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TIL the first telephone switchboard operators were boys, but their "rude and abusive" behavior led them to be replaced by young women.

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mxPMy TIL that eating a large amount of cashews (or whole nuts) makes you shit orange oil droplets.
loB5N TIL that Mark Taimanov, a Russian chess Grandmaster, after losing 6-0 to Bobby Fischer in 1971's World Chess Championship Candidates quarterfinal, got his salary and his ability to leave the country taken away, aswell as being censored in the press because the Russian government was so embarrassed.
Brr7k TIL There is a video of GH Bush being rescued by a submarine
jNxgM TIL That the first Boeing 747 to fly a commercial route was also the first to be hijacked, 9 months after it flew its maiden commercial flight. 7 years later, it was also one of the planes destroyed in the Tenerife Airport Disaster.