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TIL that Thomas Edison proposed to his future wife in morse code, she accepted in the same way.

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BgEke TIL about the "Scaptia beyonceae", an Australian horsefly named after Beyoncé
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LR4d TIL that in the 19th century scottishman Gregor MacGregor run the largest SCAM scheme ever stealing almost £3.6 billion of today money.
r7Re TIL of “Montreal’s Night of Terror”, a sort of real-life Purge with bank robberies and looting, as the Montreal police went on a 16 hour strike.
yQeXa TIL soldiers were used as “guinea pigs” to study the effects of radiation on human health by French government in 1960s