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TIL that AT&T’s Bell Labs invented the message machine in the 1930s. However, it was hidden by AT&T from the public until the 1990s for fear that ‘voice mail’ would end the need for the telephone

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P1a9O TIL The volcano Mauna Loa makes up 51% of the landmass of Hawai'i (the Big Island)
rRwK0 TIL that when recording "Heroes", David Bowie used three microphones. One 9 inches away, one 20 feet away, and one just beyond that. Each microphone was muted as the next activated, forcing him to sing at increasing volume to be heard.
mQbp TIL that Nazi Germany’s most successful interrogator never used torture to get information; he instead befriended prisoners. He later helped create mosaic art for Disney.
b9XBa TIL a French footballer, Jean-Pierre Adams, has spent nearly 40 years in a coma he entered at age 34 following an anesthetist’s error. His wife has stayed by his side this whole time.
vAaR TIL of Najih Al-Baldawi, an Iraqi man who sacrificed himself by hugging a suicide bomber as they detonated inside a shrine, reducing the force of the blast and saving dozens of people.