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TIL fax machines were first used in the 1800s

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l7xjN TIL the images of space you see from space telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope are initially in black and white and the colors are later edited in by people.
N7mgQ TIL that at almost $11 billion, the annual NYPD budget is more than 3 times higher than the entire UN budget of just over $3 billion.
5VMXr TIL that the maps, that William Clarke made during his famous 1803 expedition with Meriwether Lewis were done with such accuracy that they were only off by 40 miles from his starting point in Camp River Dubois in Illinois to the Pacific Ocean.
D1MNp TIL there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
7rjRZ TIL opera singer Daniel Hovlevels had his throat slit on stage due to a prop replacement error, survived, and was back to work the day after.