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TIL from 2012 to 2016, after slews of nude selfies, beats, sexts and party invites, a lawyer named Jonathan Nichols finally realized that his phone number was 1-900-Mix-Alot.

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LkPxV TIL left handed people were retrained to write with their right hands in certain schools, even into the 1970s. This caused a stutter for some of the students.
awZE9 TIL in 1994, Russian Premier Boris Yeltsin escaped from the Presedential Guest House in Washington, and was found by the CIA in his underpants, drunk, yelling for a taxi so he could get pizza.
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