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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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b9KxZ TIL that Susan Alfond, Maine’s richest person, made her fortune by selling Warren Buffett a shoe company. Buffett would go on to call this purchase the most disastrous investment of his career and the business ultimately failed.
VB5BZ TIL James Cameron voluntarily gave up his points (a percentage of the film's income) and salary for Titanic when its budget exceeded his original estimation to the studio (it went from $100-120m to $200m). He didn't want the studio execs to think he had lied to them in order to get the movie made.
NKjb TIL in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, public transportation is free for its residents.
mxlJM TIL US incarceration rates exceeds the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the infamous Stalin’s Gulag system
6901Y Today I learned that Nevada is the most centralized American state, with 73% of all Nevadans living in Clark County