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TIL: Samuel Morse invented the telegraph after he received a letter of his wife’s failing health… after she’d died.

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0wyQN TIL that scientists from the World Meteorological Organization developed six lists of twenty-one (21) names for tropical storms and hurricanes that rotate each year. Each letter of the alphabet has a name for a storm except Q, U, X, Y, and Z. Right now, we are on letter C, Cristobal.
xad1 TIL that in 1943 three Belgian men held up a train and liberated 200 Jews using only one gun and some wire cutters.
9wkrD TIL that the civilian ship pilot in Dunkirk is based off a real person - Charles Lightoller, the second officer of the Titanic who sailed his own ship to save 127 servicemen at Dunkirk
D1oe TIL that Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, admits that he was wrong about nuclear power
nWVBG TIL Poland’s first PM was a concert pianist