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TIL that the oldest still-operating webcam in the world is The FogCam! At San Fransisco State University It launched in July, 1994

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rNd4d TIL of Ken Forsse, an Disney Imagineer whose company Alchemy II was put in charge of the animatronics on the Disney Channel show the Welcome to Pooh Corner. Nearly broke, the company switched to toys using the animatronic technology used in Disney rides. The result? Teddy Ruxpin.
yVkwM TIL that according to Guinness World Records, the largest church in the world is not Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Instead, it is the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in the Ivory Coast, which measures 30,000 square metres (320,000 sq ft) in area.
oRY8K TIL Zak Brown, the current CEO of McLaren F1 racing, won $3,050 on Wheel of Fortune in 1984 as a teenager and spent it all on a go-kart.
5VrBB TIL that the first photograph of a person was an accident.
V9kp TIL: In 2000, a romance novel tilted Zabibah and the King was published in Iraq, quickly becoming a best seller. Soon after, it was found out that the book was originally published and written anonymously by Saddam Hussein.