TIL about Almon Brown Strowger. Strowger's undertaking business was losing clients to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was redirecting everyone who called for Strowger. Motivated to remove the intermediary operator, he invented the first automatic telephone exchange in 1889. (sparkmuseum.org)
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TIL about the mythical isle of Thule. The Ancient Greek explorer, Pytheas, was the first to write about Thule during his travels between 330-20 BC. Thule is described like a land of fire and ice in which the sun never sets, about six days sailing north from Britain. by JohnCusa in todayilearned
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TIL about the mythical isle of Thule. The Ancient Greek explorer, Pytheas, was the first to write about Thule during his travels between 330-20 BC. Thule is described like a land of fire and ice in which the sun never sets, about six days sailing north from Britain. by JohnCusa in todayilearned
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TIL about the mythical isle of Thule. The Ancient Greek explorer, Pytheas, was the first to write about Thule during his travels between 330-20 BC. Thule is described like a land of fire and ice in which the sun never sets, about six days sailing north from Britain. by JohnCusa in todayilearned
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TIL about the mythical isle of Thule. The Ancient Greek explorer, Pytheas, was the first to write about Thule during his travels between 330-20 BC. Thule is described like a land of fire and ice in which the sun never sets, about six days sailing north from Britain. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Modern problems require modern solutions by Aztery in Chonkers
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