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kOg6W TIL France had the most extensive network of optical telegraphs, and the inertia from this made it one of the slowest countries to adopt electrical telegraphs.
PYwZE TIL that wild populations of the Kanab Ambersnail exist in only two small, disconnected areas. One location is a series of small ponds located in a meadow near Kanab, Utah, and the other is at some waterfalls that emerge from the cliff face near the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
PYweg TIL that there are 400 known albino redwoods, which survive by getting sugar through roots of nearby trees
N7Ma8 TIL that spiders can fly using Earth's electrical field. Spiders have flown 'two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.'
Rjw9 TIL that all attempts to create a national identity card (a federal agency-issued mandatory form of identification) have been strongly opposed by both conservative and liberal politicians, who regard it as the mark of a totalitarian society.