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TIL the British empire was completely connected by telegraph via underwater cables.

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ep6QL TIL The new year was celebrated on April 1 . In France it became known as Fish Day . A day to play practical jokes .
R7Dv7 [TIL] Some spiders are master recyclers. Orb-weavers remove their webs every morning by eating the silk. This way, protein from the silk is never wasted. They hide from predators all day and make a new web at night. I saw this myself this morning at on my balcony!
VMPvm TIL Prehistoric Europeans made clay baby bottles in the shape of cute animals. These bottles have been found in the graves of infants, indicating an importance greater than simply function.
l7BXN TIL there are elephants in Kenya that go into caves to mine salt
VMPM4 TIL when professional wrestler Brian Pillman was to be "fired" by the WCW as part of a wrestling storyline, he asked that he be faxed a real release form to increase the realism. Since all the proper signatures were on it, he used the document to escape his contract and wrestle in the WWE instead