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TIL 87 people drowned during the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.

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A8mo TIL While visiting Camp David in 1973, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was given a Lincoln Continental by Richard Nixon. Brezhnev coaxed Nixon into the passenger seat and then drove off the property, leaving the President’s security detail behind as the two leaders sped down rural, narrow roads.
W77kX TIL that the saying "I'll sleep when I'm dead." may have first been said by the hero Gilgamesh. This conversation with the god Shamesh is from the Epic of Gilgamesh, captured on clay tablets 4000 years ago in the world's oldest written story. Jump down to the beginning of Part III
gDyD TIL for over 200 years, Martha’s Vineyard had a very high percentage of deaf citizens due to the founder effect. Virtually everyone was fluent in sign language and deafness was not a social barrier. Martha’s Vineyard sign language went extinct in 1952.
X0M8X TIL that both the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series were both inspired by just three consecutive lines from a single scene of Shakespeare's King Lear
XEQpk TIL that a coin flip isn’t actually ‘fair’ — in a typical coin toss, there is a 51% chance that the coin will land on the side it started on.