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TIL The First Crisis Hotline Was Started in 1953 in London by a British Priest Named Chad Varah

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YpOGv TIL of Jose Mujica, the president of Uruguay from 2010-2015, he was known as the "the world's humblest head of state" as he gave away around 90% of his $12,000 monthly salary to charity. He also led an austere lifestyle; he lived on a farm than in the presidential palace and drove a 1987 VW beetle.
lkO7 TIL George Wallace, the famed segregationist governor of Alabama, got his wife elected to subvert term limits. To do so, he hid her cancer diagnosis from her, lest treatment adversely affect her campaign. The only female Governor of Alabama died less than two hundred days into her term.
l7Dpa TIL of the Canal of the Pharaohs, which was the ancient forerunner of the Suez Canal, which was first built sometime in the 7th Century BC and was used until 767 AD.
VMb8k TIL that the original Trefoil ("Radioactive") symbol was replaced by a red, more grotesque version including a skull and crossbones (ISO 21482), after 3 people died when they carried and dismantled a Cobalt-60 radiation source, not recognizing the symbol.
PXGg TIL about operation Vegetarian, a 1942 plan by the British military to drop linseed cakes infected with anthrax on German fields where they would be eaten by cows and thus infect the civilian population that ate them, the test site in Scotland remained uninhabitable until the 1990’s