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TIL Alexander Bell never called his wife or his mother after inventing the telephone because they were both deaf

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GYXZ5 TIL That Rita Hayworth began showing signs of Alzheimer's during her 40s. Even as it worsened, people blamed her behaviour on her heavy drinking. She never got a proper diagnosis until 1979 and upon her death in 1987 at just 68, she would become a major public face for Alzheimer's Awareness.
4XakR TIL that when advice columnist Ann Landers asked in 1986 what the correct direction for toilet paper was, she received 15,000 letters - the most in her column's history
N7eOb TIL of Lulu the pot bellied pig, who upon seeing her owner have a heart attack, ran into the street and played dead. When someone stopped, she led him into the house to her owner who was ultimately saved
VM65D TIL that IPA (India pale ale) was originally a British beer brewed for export to India that was specially formulated to survive the long sea voyage.
b9Eo4 TIL that the Irish Famine of 1740-41, or 'the Year of Slaughter', killed between 13-20% of the population, proportionally more than the later Great Famine.