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TIL Scuba divers use Magna Doodles to pass notes underwater

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Myg7 TIL Benjamin Franklin tried to abolish slavery in 1790 by petitioning congress and writing many essays on abolitionism.
DQwAY TIL that a teacher called Angela Ruiz-Robles invented the mechanical precursor to the e-book in 1949
0d9AL TIL that a depressed teen convinced his friend, using six made-up online characters, to kill him. Totaling over 56,000 lines of text, he told his him that his reward would be money, a job as a British secret service agent and sex with a middle-aged spy.
w5OM TIL 1-800-Collect is still a thing and their site still features all their old 90’s commercials with Phil Hartman, Arsenio Hall and Mr. T
78oOP TIL: The (now disbanded) British Colour Council produced indexes of named colours for use by government, industry, academia, and horticulture... including colour B.C.C 20 – "N_gger Brown".