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TIL Bell didnt discover the Telephone first

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Wj64 TIL that in Ghana, when Hollywood movie posters can’t be imported, locals will try their hand at drawing the posters for their bootleg screenings.
v1rgx TIL there is a real (extinct) species called "Crash Bandicoot". The genus is "Crash" and its only species is "Bandicoot"
VMZ6B TIL when The Hollies released "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" in 1969, the song got up to #3 in the charts. However, after the song was used in a Miller Lite ad in 1988, it managed to reach the #1 spot and stay there for two weeks.
0wRkL TIL a woman with an IQ of 189 died after drinking 4 gallons of water in one sitting trying to combat stomach cancer.
RYvl TIL Paleontologist Jørn Hurum teamed up with artist Esther van Hulsen to paint an octopus with 95-million-year-old ink