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TIL Western Union sent it's last telegram in 2006

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9Jm6 TIL that the average height of a human being stayed constant from the stone age all the way until the 1800’s, yet the average human today is four inches taller on average than 150 years ago.
bba0 TIL that USA has never won Olympic medals in just 3 sports: handball, badminton, and table tennis.
7GOZ TIL that Vincent van Gogh put candles in his hat so he could paint at night, walked ridiculously fast, was a widow-chaser, and never once signed his paintings “Van Gogh”.
PYbnG TIL that the renowned Conestoga wagon, the backbone of any Oregon Trail playthrough, was almost never used by westward settlers as it was too heavy to pass the soft prairie trails.
Z88Gp TIL: In the early days of the People's Republic of China, families of executed prisoners were charged a "Bullet Fee" when claiming their relatives corpse