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TIL Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862 which created a system of land-grant colleges and universities that revolutionized higher education in the United States and helped the country become the scientific and engineering powerhouse it is today

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lPEK TIL a woman was stabbed in a Kansas convenience store, and as she lay dying, 5 people physically stepped over her dying body, with one even stopping to take a picture.
6901W TIL the original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code for Command Module (Comanche055) and Lunar Module (Luminary099) is available on Github.
L91V TIL, every year on August 5th the Mars Curiosity rover is programmed to sing itself happy birthday
M77O7 TIL: The Lorem Ipsum Dolor placeholder text is from an ancient Roman manuscript by Cicero, and has been used since the 1500s for this purpose
5VgVk TIL John Wilkes Booth father, Junius Brutus Booth, wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness to President Andrew Jackson threatening assassination.