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TIL Hans Christian Ørsted made the first connection between electricity and magnetism, which brought about a communications revolution due to its application to the electric telegraph

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r7B4 TIL that the FBI used ‘an effective, time-tested process’ to internally address shooting incidents and concluded themselves faultless in 150 shootings.
KKGR TIL that Turkish people drink more tea than British people.
AN6rB TIL The initials GTT ("Gone to Texas") came into use in the first half of the nineteenth century, when Texas had the reputation for producing and harboring outlaws. The letters were often chalked on the doors of houses in the Southern states to tell where the occupants had gone.
1axXX TIL a woman locked herself into a toilet one day, then refused to leave the toilet seat to the point her skin started to grow around the seat, becoming one with the toilet and making her stuck to it.
7r9gX TIL Hydrogen-alpha filters used for looking at the sun transmit only one specific wavelength of light: a deep red light emitted by hydrogen atoms of the sun. H-alpha filters are much more expensive than white light filters. The least expensive ones start at about $700