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Fact #149532

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Short story:

When tickets go on sale for the upcoming next leg of Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA tour the public response causes the telephone exchanges in Washington, Baltimore and Richmond, Virginia, to become jammed. Two million calls are logged between 10.00 and 11,30am, compared with 850,000 on the previous Monday. All 52,600 tickets for the Springsteen concert in Washington DC, USA, sell out in 90 minutes.

Full article:

Charles Overly (director of the Pentagon’s Telecommunications Centre) : One guy over at the telephone company told us the switching centre is tied up about the way it was when Kennedy was assassinated.