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TIL John wilkes booths body was sewn into an army blanket and placed on a tugboat for transport to the Washington Navy Yard about 80 miles north.

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4WNJ TIL Australia has a tradition called “democracy sausage” where poll workers have a sausage sizzle outside the polling place
6EyaW TIL in July 1989 a Soviet pilot catapulted out of his MiG-23 over Poland, the plane flew another 1000 km. and crashed into a Belgium farm killing 1.
YolP TIL Bill Paxton is one of only two actors ever to be killed by an Alien, the Terminator, and a Predator
1aAvW TIL of the “weepy voiced killer” - a serial killer who would call police after his murders & cried down the end of the line about what he had done. He was caught when a woman he stabbed 15 timed escaped by smashing him over the face with a bottle.
GYxoE TIL about the Concord Prison Experiment, which demonstrated that the experiences generated by psilocybin had the potential to lower recidivism rates among prisoners after their release from the Maximum Security prison