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TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843

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7RQO TIL trying to quit a play, Jeremy Piven was allowed leave after ‘dangerously high levels of mercury’ were found in his body. Annoyed, David Mamet said to reporters that Piven was “leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.”
pYY5Q TIL that a yawn is such an empathetic behavior that reading about yawning will make 55% of people yawn just from reading it.
0wmeA TIL the Kosovo Long Crower Rooster can crow for (an excruciatingly long) 30 seconds straight.
Wk4RY TIL: Commerical Flight Attendants and Pilots are 4x more likely to get cancer in their lifetime, because of the time they spend flying, with a thinner atmosphere and more solar particles. They recive 3x more radiation a year than a nuclear plant employee
kOxvE TIL of pocket parks, mini-sized parks with room enough for one swing, that neighborhoods build in order to banish registered sex offenders who are not allowed to live within 2000 ft of them.