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TIL that the first ever morse code message was “what hath god wrought?”

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xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops
MeGbA TIL Humans are deuterostomes, which means the butthole forms before any other openings, and organs during development.
VM7W8 Today I learned that the peanut butter jelly time vocalist died in a 11 hour shooting, his brother in law was snoop Dogg
GAVDj TIL that the director McG filmed a music video for “Turning Japanese” starring/sung by Kirsten Dunst to be included in the Tate Modern art gallery.
JZdB TIL that dating was such a novelty in the early 1900s that women were often misperceived as prostitutes and arrested for letting a man buy them dinner