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TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843

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7r0WZ TIL that King Arthur had a Muslim knight: Sir Palamedes. In Arthurian Legends, he is famed for being part of the Tristan-Isolde-Palamedes love triangle, the hunt for the Questing Beast, and the search for the Holy Grail (wherein he converts to Christianity).
X0758 TIL: That flat earther Mike Hughes died after crash-landing a rocket he made to prove the earth is actually flat
QRrp TIL- Corn Nuts released a radio commercial in the early nineties with the tagline “Bust a nut!”. The ad was promptly pulled from many radio stations
X0Dn6 TIL: 1 PB (petabyte) of data, if written on DVDs, would create roughly 223,100 DVDs, i.e., a stack about 878 feet tall, or a stack of CDs a mile high.
VmGQ TIL that a nigerian scammer asking for money was instead scammed into sending in a wooden bust of the victim to the victim