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TIL that Antonio Meucci invented the telephone, not Alexander Graham Bell

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4XYeJ TIL in the 1920’s Canada had plans to invade the US (and vice versa).
j6AnN TIL Walking through a doorway can cause a person to forget their original task or thought, known as the "doorway effect."
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