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TIL United States is one of 23 countries that still has a working telegram service.

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LQd6v TIL Rodger Young, despite being deaf and nearly blind (due to a head injury) and the shortest soldier in his company, won the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly destroying a Japanese machine gun nest (at the cost of his life) in WWII
Br1Nr TIL there is currently no known way to use speech recognition successfully on a whispering person, as the characteristic spectral range needed to detect syllables and words is not given through the total absence of tone
R7b04 TIL the history of Londons stretcher railings, metal fences made from WW2 stretchers once used to carry wounded civilians during the Blitz.
VBRVk TIL that a company call Biology Resource Center used body parts of donated loved ones to create Frankenstein like builds and sold them for profit
kOL9g TIL Some "grammar-nazis" are actually mentally ill. It's called Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.