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TIL that the porn filter for the UK's Parliament had inadvertently blocked emails from Welsh constituents because it couldn't recognise the language

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D1Ryj TIL that the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable was completed in 1858 and the first telegram was sent from Queen Victoria to the president of the United States. It was destroyed a month later due to the application of excessive voltage.
x68ok TIL: The South Pole is much colder than the North Pole
WmwB TIL of Unit 731, a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation. A few of the experiments included vivisection without anesthesia and pressure chambers to see how much a human could take before his eyes popped out.
9X9M TIL Inspired by The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Dailey killed his horse and crawled inside the carcass to survive an Idaho storm. He found it wonderful and warm at first but later claustrophobic and grotesque. Dailey said The Revenant was pretty accurate but wondered why DiCaprio got naked.
VMEkQ TIL A retired electrical engineer named Bruce Campbell had an old Boeing 727 delivered to the woods near Portland, OR and converted it to his home where he lives full time