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TIL the US House of Representatives recognized that Alexander Graham Bell was not the original inventor of the telephone, in H. Res 269. They gave that recognition to Antonio Meucci. In 1887, the SCOTUS found the case viable and remanded a trial, but it was dismissed shortly after Meucci's death.

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pY0o8 TIL about "Project Iceworm", a top-secret 1958 $2.7 billion U.S. plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles, including a nuclear reactor. Due to shifting Greenland ice sheets, the plan was scrapped in 1967, & the massive underground structure thereafter collapsed
RAr4 TIL that in 2004 Coca Cola introduced their ‘Dasani’ water brand to the UK and it was discovered to be London mains water simply put through reverse osmosis. Somehow they also introduced a carcinogen called bromate into the water and the brand was shut down.
VMlr4 TIL of Tommy "Karate" Pitera. A hitman for the Bonanno crime family. He spent 27 months in Japan studying martial arts and weapons training along with further educating in human biology and dissection. Suspected on up to 60 murders, he often kept souvenirs from his victims.
e0A8L TIL that lack of sleep can contribute to the end of your marriage because according to this study results if both partners got less than seven hours of sleep the previous two nights, the couple was more likely to "argue or become hostile."
EXkx TIL: There was a machine in the 1940s that kept a dogs decapitated head alive and reacting to external stimuli. The whole thing was also filmed and broadcast on TV.