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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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awemb TIL It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
6Kl8 TIL Patrick Stewart adapted Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol into a one-man show, where he played over 30 characters in a three hour long performance.
8apmK TIL that in 1937 a newspaper published a full-page map predicting Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
EVex TIL that during war, firing upon parachutists emerging from an aircraft in distress is considered by most militaries around the world to be inhumane, barbaric, and unchivalrous, that it is unnecessary, that it is contrary to fair play, and that military pilots have to be held to a higher standard.
lonLA TIL A man in India, Dashrath Manjhi carved a mountain for 22 yrs using a chisel and hammer and shortened the distance from 55km to 15km after his wife died in on the way to doctor !