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TIL All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.

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8eQAP TIL that in 1859 a 2 hour telegraph conversation between Portland and Boston was able to be had without the use of any battery power. This was due to an aurora borealis generating enough electric current in the telegraph wires.
PZNO TIL of the battle of Saragarhi, where 21 Sikhs decided to fight to death against 10,000 Afghan invaders
jNWRp TIL that buttplugs were used to treat headaches, insomnia, bad breath, acne, anemia, anorexia, hemorrhoids in the 1900s
XEbyR TIL that in 2004, John Hutcherson drove home drunk with a friend hanging out the window. He sideswiped a telephone-pole support wire, decapitating his friend. He continued home, parked in the driveway and went to bed. A neighbor found the headless body the next morning.
Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.