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TIL Barbed wire fences were used for telegraph transmission in rural areas.

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x6OVw TIL that Duck Billed Platypus has no nipples to feed their offspring. Milk oozes from the skin of mother Platypus as a means to feed her offspring.
Bg7YW TIL that if you drilled a hole through the center of the earth from Formosa Province in Argentina, you’d end up on the island of Formosa. This was not known when the two places were named in the 1500s.
oB1vL TIL Russia and the United States are only 2 miles apart, and during the winter, you can walk between the two nations. There have been proposals to built highways and high-speed rail connecting Asia and North America the Bering Strait.
6LQZ TIL that in 1971, when Frank Sinatra couldn’t get a ringside ticket to Ali & Frazier’s “Fight of the Century”, he managed to get a press pass to shoot photos for LIFE magazine instead.
exDb TIL that the world’s longest traffic jam occurred in China in 2010 and it lasted for over ten days. At its worst, cars were moving at speeds of around 1km (0.6 miles) per day.