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TIL: At the second Tour de France, the first four finishers were disqualified because they took the train

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DQBlJ TIL that the first ship to have electric lightbulbs (made by Thomas Edison himself) was initially denied coverage by insurance companies because of the new technology of electricity and lightbulbs.
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