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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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b6a7 TIL there’s an open source solar energy collector that can be build from scrap for well under $100, using basic tools and skills
4XLgw TIL that thanks to Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust the current total population of Mauritius Kestrels is approximately 350. When they started their conservation work, there was just 4 remaining on Earth, with only two of them being a breeding pair.
pPN4 TIL President Reagan was due to the deliver the State of the Union address the evening of the Challenger Disaster. Instead, he postponed the speech a week and delivered this tribute to the Challenger crew to the nation. It’s been listed as one of the most significant speeches of the 20th century.
de1j TIL the blue power ranger’s name was Billy Cranston after the actor Bryan Cranston who voiced power ranger monsters early in his career.
wooKo TIL that the first piece of legislation passed by the 1st U.S. Congress was the Tariff of 1789, which levied a 50¢ per ton duty on goods imported by foreign ships. President Washington signed the act and the money was used to pay off the Revolutionary War debt.