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

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WDxo TIL: At the time of WW1, the King of Britain, Russia, and Germany were all first cousins. When asked about WW1, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany sarcastically remarked, “If my grandmother [Queen Victoria] had been alive, she would never have allowed it.”
jMBR TIL scientists have created a language called Lincos designed for communicating with alien civilizations, should the need ever arise.
4X8KX TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.
PYV0G TIL: In New York state, a hot dog is legally a sandwich
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