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TIL the Chinese wrote about the Roman Empire in the 3rd Century

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8eQAP TIL that in 1859 a 2 hour telegraph conversation between Portland and Boston was able to be had without the use of any battery power. This was due to an aurora borealis generating enough electric current in the telegraph wires.
KOd96 TIL a child, Bobby Dunbar, disappeared at age 4, then was "found" in another state with different parents. Investigators took the child, returning him to the Dunbars. Years later, DNA revealed it was the wrong kid.
xnWB TIL: There are now more than 100 wild wallabies living on the Isle of Man, between Great Britain & Ireland, after 2 of the Australian marsupials escaped from a wildlife park in the 1970s
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