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TIL the only person to ever play themselves in any Star Trek series was Stephen Hawking

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VV4Z TIL the first webcam was created to help people avoid pointless trips to the coffee room at the University of Cambridge. The camera provided a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot, which was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room.
5NND TIL A Nova Scotia man broke into a ranch home, then fed the cats, did laundry, put out hay for the horses, took a shower, used the residents’ toothbrush and shaver, and wrote in their diary.
W7Ya8 TIL about MS St. Louis, a refugee ship that left Hamburg in May 1939 carrying a load of passengers, most of them Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. They were subsequently turned away by Cuba, the US, and Canada. The ship was forced to dock at Antwerp, and the passengers divvied up to various countries.
4goN TIL that some schools in the Southern United States still hold two separate, segregated proms- one for whites and one for blacks.
edYk TIL Walt Disney’s last written words were “Kurt Russell”-and no one knows why. Kurt Russell was a child-actor working for Disney at the time, having just signed a ten year contract with the studio.