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TIL in 1991, AT&T, which stands for American Telephone & Telegraph, decided to drop its telegraph service due to low demand which was caused by faxes, electronic mail, and digital data transmission.

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eR8L TIL that through a series of mistranslated texts, the Christian Church unwittingly accepted the Buddha as a Christian saint in the Middle Ages
GA9ag TIL of Albert Stevens, who was part of an experiment where he was unknowingly injected with radioactive plutonium after being diagnosed with cancer, ultimately for doctors to find that he never actually had cancer
4XaAJ TIL that pineapples were name during after pinecones due to their spiky appearances
x6ABk TIL of the town Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha, Québec. The the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.
dDWkQ TIL that the death rate for heart attacks increases by 15% on days when marathons are held in major US cities. This is thought to be due to road closures and traffic around the marathon route. Ambulance ride length increases by an average of four minutes on marathon days.