did-you-kno:

The telegraph was invented out of grief.
In 1825, artist Samuel Morse was hired
to paint a portrait, and his wife suddenly
fell ill while he was traveling. It took days
for the news to reach him, and she was
already dead and buried by the time he
returned. He was so upset that he quit
his art career, focused on finding a faster
way to communicate, and turned an old,
bulky telegraph design into a practical,
single-wire machine that sent signals
which we now know as Morse code. Source Source 2 Source 3

did-you-kno:

There’s a resort in Japan that
‘floats on the clouds’ near the summit
of Mount Tomamu. When weather
conditions are just right, you feel like
you’re relaxing over a ‘sea of clouds,’
because the Unkai Terrace juts out from
the side of the mountain, over 3,500 feet
above sea level. The clouds sometimes
start right at your feet, and they can
even look like a flowing waterfall when
the wind blows them in from the Pacific. Source Source 2 Source 3

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