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TIL that telegraph operators fell in love, got married, and even had sexual encounters over the telegraph, much in the same way people do today through messaging and social networks

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KYZKB TIL during the 13th century eating breakfast was said to be one of six ways to commit the fifth deadly sin of gluttony; and throughout the middle ages it was common to eat two meals a day - a larger meal that might include meat and wine around 11am followed by a lighter meal at dusk.
kJ6PW TIL of Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest confidant and right-hand man in World War II. In 1939, he suffered from stomach cancer and lost 75% of his stomach in an operation. Told that he had only four weeks to live, Hopkins suffered through poor health to work throughout World War II, and died in 1946.
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agKZ TIL that an English POW in WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later.