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TIL Sean Connery turned down the iconic role of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter before it went to Anthony Hopkins

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GY6LG TIL that on August 16, 1858, Queen Victoria sent a message of approximately 100 words to U.S. President James Buchanan. It took nearly seventeen hours to transmit by Morse code through about 2,500 miles of cable at a depth of often more than two miles.
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