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TIL the average life expectancy before 1810 for almost every country was less than 40 years.

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P1KdL TIL about the Teleseme, a signaling device with a dial that luxury hotel guests would use to demand over 100 services including ordering cocktails or manservants. These devices faded out of service by the 1910s as hotels started implementing telephone systems.
8awjX TIL in the 1910s, there was a US baseball team made up of death-row prisoners, whose executions were delayed so long as they kept winning.
rR754 TIL that rats masturbate
981Q TIL that as well as the North & South poles, there are Poles of Inaccessibility - places on land or in the ocean that are the most challenging to reach in the world
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