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TIL That the last living eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln won a TV game show in 1956

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woPmP TIL of Zambia's space program involving being rolled down a hill & spun around trees in an oil drum as weightlessness training, then swinging on a rope then cut from it, emulating freefall. Taught to walk on their hands as this was "how you walk in space". A 16 yr old and a cat were Mars bound first
8veP TIL a Swedish diplomat jumped on top of a train filled with Jews bound for Auschwitz and handed out Swedish passports down through the doors as German soldiers ordered him down and fired into the air around him. He then demanded the Germans release them and took them to safety.
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