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TIL fax machines were first used in the 1800s

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d8lJ7 TIL San Francisco's Chinatown, formerly known as "Chinese Quarter", was created to keep the Chinese population in California segregated.
69AxY TIL that Roland the Farter was a medieval flatulist and jester that was given a manor and 30 acres of land in exchange for performing "One jump and whistle and one fart" for King Henry the 2nd every Christmas.
XE70P TIL about the Fundamental Attribution Error, a concept that describes how we blame others when bad things happen to them, but blame the external situations when bad things happen to us.
BrxQL TIL that in 1874, a book titled "Shadows from the Walls of Death" was published that warned about the use of poisonous arsenic dyes in wallpaper, and the book contained specimens of the wallpaper. The book was so toxic that all but four copies have been destroyed.
VP98 TIL that Today all Dutch trains are powered 100% by wind energy