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TIL Bell didnt discover the Telephone first

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N77v8 TIL during a break in filming the Grinch movie, Jim Carrey pulled a prank on tourists on the Universal Studios backlot by running out of the Bates Motel in a dress holding a knife
XD8X TIL that President W. Bush started a program that gave $15bn to fight HIV/AIDS, it saved 1.1 million lives in Africa and reduced the death rate due to AIDS by 10%.
OLxX TIL If you microwave a grape that is cut in half (but the halves are still connected by a sliver of skin) it makes plasma.
R5d74 TIL that Winston Churchill loved cats, while Adolph Hitler was said to despise them.
OoZv1 TIL that the first proposal for space travel in English history was made by Oliver Cromwell’s brother-in-law in the 17th century, who thought that we just needed to fly 20 miles above the Earth to be released from its magnetism and sail to other planets to trade with the inhabitants.