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TIL that the First brown bear in 150 years has been seen in a national park in northern Spain

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Bg4vD TIL that many English men sold their wives in public auctions from the late 17th Century until the early 1900s. The practice was considered easier than obtaining a divorce...
WaEN TIL in 1880 Alex Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also invented the photophone, a device that transmits sound using visible light. Although he called it his greatest invention, it wasn’t until the 1980s, over a century later, that it precursed fibre optics, the backbone of the modern Internet
1XaV TIL New research suggests that extreme weather is the most important cause of poverty.
WmlB TIL Overall crime in NYC is down 80% since 1990
WkZ9o TIL City water supplies in Minneapolis, USA and Warsaw, Poland use a "bio-monitoring system." Consisting of clams and mussels that alert them to pollutants via text message or switches. When the clams close, a spring glued to their head completes a switch and alerts the operators in Warsaw.