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TIL that in October 1839, Robert Cornelius took the world’s first selfie. A self-portrait captured with early photographic tech.

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691MQ TIL: João Teixeira de Faria is a self proclaimed medium and "psychic surgeon" able to perform remote and invisible surgeries. He's been on James Randi, Oprah, ABC news, etc. He made $10 million in 2014 selling cures. Many patients died and he is now in jail for 489 years for numerous crimes.
VM6MG TIL King Zog of Albania survived 55 assasination attempts
J1go4 TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach.
dDWWd TIL that the mayor of New York City wanted to secede from the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War
m1NZo TIL Apollo 11's Solar Wind Composition Experiment consisted of an aluminium foil sheet fixed to a pole facing the Sun. Studied by Swiss physicist Johannes Geiss, it was the only non-American experiment to be part of the mission and carried out on every moon landing