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TIL the fax machine was invented before the telephone

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ZpwOR Today I learned that all but one country in the UN has ratified or accepted the rights articulated for children in the UNCRC treaty. The one country who hasn't is the United States.
69Vjw TIL that the longest possible word in English has 189,819 letters and takes over 3 hours to pronounce.
VB4KG TIL while talking about how he keeps the lore continuity organized for A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin mentioned he's made mistakes with eye color, and accidentally changed a horse's gender between the first and second book
90lM TIL that in the South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession, slavery is referenced 18 times. States rights is only referenced twice.
LDY0 TIL that until 2001 Disney required employees dressed as characters to share communal underwear