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TIL Alexander Graham Bell wanted to abolish sign language and believed deaf people to be inferior. He proposed many ideas to breed a more “noble man” and reduce the intermarrying of the “dead and dumb”.

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5EmQ TIL that a group of “illegal restorers” broke into the Paris Panthéon, set up a secret workshop, and repaired the monument’s broken clock.
lB6G TIL that in 1959 the USPS attempted to deliver mail by cruise missile and successfully shipped cargo from New jersey to Florida in 22 minutes
4XjMo TIL that a breed of wool dogs existed on the pacific northwest coast. Indigenous people would keep the dogs isolated on small islands to prevent inter breeding with hunting dogs. The wool dogs were cared for and feed a rich diet of seafood to produce strong yarn to make blankets from.
x6P9b TIL: Fish can cough through their gills
Wp79 TIL that the worst thing about Verkhoyansk, Russia isn’t the winter temps that rival the average surface of Mars, but the 400-strong “wolf superpack” raids.