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TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb and that electric lights had already existed for more than 70 years before he filed his patent in 1878

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kJ6Q4 TIL of the HMS Black Joke, a former slave ship captured and given to the British West Africa squadron. Over a 5 year career she captured dozens of slave ships and freed thousands of African slaves bound for the Western Hemisphere.
b6WeQ TIL that sharks' skin is basically covered entirely with teeth. They are coated with 'denticles', which are much closer to teeth than to fish scales.
awZPJ TIL that during times when people were burnt at the stake, bags of gunpowder were sometimes tied around the victim's necks to shorten their suffering.
LkRrZ TIL The Fastest internet speed in the world Ever Recorded
1aJbX TIL: The gun made popular by James Bond, the Walther PPK, is the same model that Hitler used to kill himself.