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TIL Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invent the telephone, Italian Antonio Meucci did and Bell took the credit.

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VMbkB TIL The design of the Emperor’s home in “Mulan” takes its inspiration from China’s Forbidden City. The timeline of the movie is set during China’s Han Dynasty, from around 200 B.C.to 200 A.D.; while the Forbidden City was built about 1,200 years later
BgWbd TIL the MiG-15's NATO reporting name is Fagot
9wdDB TIL that David Lee Roth, former vocalist of Van Halen, is a also a state-licensed emergency medical technician in New York. In 2012, he said: "I probably have over 200 9-1-1 calls on my ticket in the last six years alone. I live a very different life away from music."
mByY TIL of “Fan Death”, a well known myth in South Korean culture, that running an electric fan in a closed room with unopened or no windows can lead to death. Despite no concrete evidence to support the concept, fan death persists due to its popularity as an urban myth or superstition.
yQZEJ TIL that there are only 88 recognized constellations and it has been that way since 1928.