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TIL Alexander Graham Bell took credit for inventing the phone, but Antonio Meucci invented it 5 years earlier… A problem with is patent gave Bell the chance to claim the invention

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OGjER TIL that the left breast gets cancer more often than the right one.
9YERD TIL that even a minute long power failure at semiconductor factories can cause millions of Dollars in losses.
N7R18 TIL about a tattooed biker gang called Rescue Ink, who travel around rescuing neglected and abused animals and taking them to no-kill shelters/rehabilitation centres.
VMpkB TIL a Disney Cruise worker vanished from a cruise. She was seen looking distraught on camera then vanished. Disney were uncooperative & claimed she fell overboard despite the fact there was no bad weather & she was last seen in the opposite end of the ship to where they claimed she fell.
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