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TIL a boat in the UK named the Lydia Eva is the last surviving steam drifter boat in the world

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9BdX TIL there has never been a time in US history when there were more than six living Presidents
Wk1eA TIL, the earliest form of smallpox immunization was used in China in the 1500’s. Doctors would take ground up scabs from people with mild cases of the disease, and blow the material into their nostrils. This lead to a mild version of the disease which had a mortality rate of ~2%.(20-30%if untreated)
1aRo7 TIL that a conman, J.D. McMahon, managed to collect $200,000 from investors in building a 40 ft-tall (480 in or 12 m) building- the infamous Newby-McMahon Building, also known as the world's littlest skyscraper. McMahon neglected to specify that the building’s scale was measured in inches, not feet.
Zpkn4 TIL that during World War I, the French planned to build a fake Paris, complete with a duplicate Champs-Élysées, to confuse German bomber pilots.
yQ9Ov TIL a young man was killed when his head became stuck underneath a cinema seat as he looked for some possessions he’d dropped