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TIL Western Union sent it's last telegram in 2006
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TIL the prominent scarring on Seal's face is the result of a type of lupus called discoid lupus erythematosus, which affects the skin and leaves large scars.
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TIL that in 1910 English pranksters disguised as Ethiopian diplomats fooled the Royal Navy into giving them a tour of HMS Dreadnought. They spoke a gibberish of mostly Greek and Latin and would shout "Bunga bunga!" to express astonishment. One of them was author Virginia Woolf.
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TIL In January 1979, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing a principal and a custodian at an elementary school in California. When asked why she did it, her reply was "I just don't like Mondays."
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TIL about Ruppell’s griffon vultures which can fly at over 37,000 ft high, higher than the altitude of an average airplane
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TIL Elvis Presley’s favorite movie was “Monty Python and The Holy Grail”, he would rent out a movie theater to do midnight screenings with his friends.