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TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843

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neeAB TIL about the Dahu, a mythical animal similar to a mountain goat, which is believed to have longer legs on one side so that it can stand level on a mountain's slope.
WkwX TIL that in 2005 the Georgian President fired the entire traffic police force in an attempt to reduce corruption (xpost; original post did not gain visibility).
Z8EOR TIL Your smartphone is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computers
Me8O8 TIL that Jonah Hill asked for $10,000,000 to play the Riddler in “The Batman” (twice Robert Pattinson’s salary), even though he worked on “The Wolf Of Wall Street” for only $60,000
Oogb6 TIL that the archaic study of head shape (Phrenology) is responsible for many sayings. Intelligent people had a "highbrow", stupid people had a "lowbrow", people with balanced attributes' heads were "well-rounded" and psychiatrists would reduce areas of people's brains and were called "shrinks".