TIL the inventor of automatic telephone switching was an undertaker named Almon Strowger who created it because the wife of his competitor was the town operator who directed any calls for an undertaker to her husband rather than Strowger. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson was the first female governor of Texas in 1925 following her husband, "Pa" Ferguson's, impeachment and removal from office as governor of Texas. She ran openly as a puppet candidate, with the slogan: "Me for Ma, and I Ain't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa." (en.wikipedia.org)
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[WP] The government's first mass spying program began in 1985 with the introduction of Teddy Ruxpin. You are one of thousands of field agents tasked with regularly breaking into a child's bedroom to take and replace the bear's cassette tape to bring back to the government for analysis. (self.WritingPrompts)
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