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TIL the first transatlantic telegraph cable was completed in 1858 and it took 2 minutes for a single character to make the journey, the first full message from Queen Victoria taking almost 18 hours to complete.

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M7ALA TIL about the 1899 Horsey Horseless, a design for an early automobile which contained a wooden horse head and neck attached to the front of the car in an attempt to not frighten horses.
DdOr TIL an Area 51 researcher claims that the “aliens” that allegedly crash-landed there were WWII POW’s who were being experimented on to study the risks of space exploration on the human body and that the images of aliens are, therefore, derived from that of humans whose bodies were destroyed.
9bZB TIL of Ken McElroy, the “town bully” of Skidmore, Missouri whose unsolved 1981 murder was witnessed by as many as 46 people
MgjW TIL that after a road side bomb killed a Marine, his company invaded two random houses and killed 24 Iraqi men women and children. Only one Marine was charged and served 90 days in jail.
Me7N8 TIL that in the 60s, a small town in New Mexico built an underground elementary school capable of withstanding a 20-megaton nuclear blast.