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TIL: after leaving for a trip and returning to find his pregnant wife had died and been burried, Samuel Morse spent the next 45 years of his life inventing the telegraph; trying to make sure no one felt the way he did that night.

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YemA TIL 13% of the world’s adults – 630 million people – say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently.
j66pN TIL that apples can get sunburned and this is what it looks like
VJ7G TIL in 2001, members of PETA had just left an anti-hunt protest when they hit a deer. They informed the NJ Division of Fish and and Wildlife that they would sue for damages and injuries since it was a result of the deer management program, which included, increasing the deer population.
jb5E TIL in 1915, millionaire Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge as a gift for his wife. She didn’t like it so he gave it to the nation in 1918.
kOxwd TIL that John Mulaney started drinking at 13 years old and that the psychiatrist his parents made him go see as a teenager once described him as “one part nice kid, one part gorilla that wants to kill the other half.”