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TIL that John Wilkes Booth was present at the hanging of John Brown.

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4XE4g TIL in 1933, US Steel, Remington Arms, J.P. Morgan, and Standard Oil joined the DuPont family in an attempt to overthrow FDR with a fascist military coup called the "Business Plot"
dDEJB TIL that saving $2k a year from age 19-26 would leave you with more money at 65 than if you invested the same amount from 27-65. At 10% a year average returns, the person who saved for seven years would have over $1M, while the person who saved for almost 40 years would have about $800k.
ngL7 TIL a gravitational anomaly called The Great Attractor pulls Milky Way and millions of other galaxies towards itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14 million miles) per hour.
BgvVd TIL Brothers Grimm didn't write "Red Riding Hood", "Snow White" or "Sleeping Beauty" - they just collected the folk tales
EyWo TIL that Jazz legend Charles Mingus not only trained his cat to use the toilet, but also published a guide on the topic