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TIL that 1 in 8 people who have ever lived are alive today
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TIL that in 1859 a 2 hour telegraph conversation between Portland and Boston was able to be had without the use of any battery power. This was due to an aurora borealis generating enough electric current in the telegraph wires.
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TIL Alexander Scourby recorded the first audio book version of the King James Bible. The American Bible Society distributed the recordings as The Talking Bible, a set of 169 LP records with a running time of 84.5 hours. Scourby recorded 422 books and considered Talking Books his most important work.
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TIL that Robin William’s son, Zach Williams, has an MBA from Columbia and uses it to help educate inmates at San Quentin prison about finance
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TIL that despite receiving scholarships from both Harvard and Yale, Nixon declined the offer so that he could manage the family store while his mother took care of his sick brother
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TIL that King Louis XIV lived and ruled so long (72 yrs) that he is not only the longest reigning ruler of Europe, but his successor, Louis XV, was neither his son, nor his grandson, but his great-grandson.