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TIL that Roosevelt is on the dime because he helped create March of Dimes, the organization that was originally a campaign to fund polio research.

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JPQ8 TIL AT&T made a working answering machine in 1939 but suppressed it, thinking public fear of being recorded would lead to widespread abandonment of the telephone.
R57Z7 TIL after Steve Martin hosted SNL for the first time, his father published a negative review in a local realtor newsletter he worked at, saying, "his performance did nothing to further his career."
D1yMj TIL that only two months after 9/11, on the 12th of November, an American Airlines flight crashed in Queens, NYC, initially spawning concerns of another terror attack. The crashed killed all 260 people aboard, 5 people on the ground, and is the second deadliest plane accident on US soil.
agG0 TIL that in 2010 3 burglars who thought they had found a stash of cocaine ended up snorting the ashes of a man and his two great danes
mxrQv TIL: Although there have only been a few studies, doctors have found that implementing a ketogenic diet can help reduce symptoms caused by Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.