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TIL the fax machine was invented before the telephone

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0d1my TIL, scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton
gr78b TIL Chris de Burgh, singer of "Lady In Red", had an affair with his children's 19 year-old nanny while his wife was recovering from a horseback-riding accident.
MeKm8 TIL of Magnus Carlsen who played against 10 chess grandmasters simultaneously with his back turned to them while verbally being told each person's moves. He beat them all.
woev8 TIL that, in 2004, a single 13-year-old was banned from using the word "grass" anywhere in England and Wales
5e8Q TIL Jim Carrey’s family was so poor that he quit school at 15 to support them by working as a janitor. He carried a baseball bat in his janitor’s cart because, “[he] was so angry [he] just wanted to beat the heck out of something.”