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TIL that YouTube does not run ads in Albania

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VQJB TIL, while Samuel Morse was in New York, he received a letter that warned of his wife’s illness. Morse left for home but arrived to find his wife already buried. Heartbroken that for days he was unaware of his wife’s illness and death lead him to research and patent the telegraph 22 years later.
VB1MQ TIL of the Salon Kitty, a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. Notable guests include Galeazzo Ciano (Mussolini's son-in-law), SS General Sepp Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich.
GYpkG TIL that the landlocked country of Mongolia has a navy with only one vessel with a strength of seven men, one of whom can swim
6ErOl TIL a comets tail always points away from the sun and has nothing to do with the way it is accelerating. This means that the comet can be going into its own tail.
0wBR TIL that “Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is color-blind”