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TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843

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eprnk TIL when Emma Stone registered for the Screen Actors Guild at age 16, the name Emily Stone, her birth name, was already taken. She briefly went by Riley Stone but switched to Emma because it was difficult to adapt to Riley.
9YbyG TIL Mosquitoes pee on us. As they take in a blood meal, they urinate to dispose of the waste products.
E1bLX TIL a F-15 took down a satellite.
ne1bG TIL in the 1960s the US had developed a nuclear bomb small enough to be carried by one person, such as a paratrooper, and placed at an enemy target such as bridge, dam, etc.
xVNOg TIL that Ugandan boxer Kassim Ouma was kidnapped at the age of six and forced to join the National Resistance Army. While in the army he was never shot, however, after moving to the US he was shot twice