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TIL the First Battery-Powered Electric Motor was Invented in 1834 By Thomas and Emily Davenport. In 1837, they Patented a Machine to Run a Printing Press. In 1840, "The Electro-Magnetic and Mechanics Intelligencer,' the First Magazine ever Printed using Electricity.

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5VX5r TIL in 1962 an Englishman named Brendon Grimshaw bought a lone island in the Seychelles and settled there for the rest of his life. He planted over 16,000 trees attracting countless species and made it a national park.
4XZ6R TIL The Lekki Conservation Center In Lekki, Nigeria, is an oasis of nature within the urban chaos of Lagos, and the suspended canopy walkway that rises over the reserve is the longest in all of Africa
1amV4 TIL that BMI was invented by a French "mathematician" - not a physician - who hoped it would be used as the basis for eugnenics
Z8Kao TIL one in 5000 babies is born without a butt hole, called Imperforate Anus, which has to be fixed surgically by the hospital.
J11R1 TIL of the Villa Rose, which appears to be a harmless, pink, two story family in the Swiss country side, but actually is a disguised military installation, that hid massive guns and was part of the so-called Toblerone line built to protected Switzerland from invasion.