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TIL that Lenin's body is on public display in Moscow and has been almost all the time since his death 96 years ago.

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PYkae TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s grave is marked by a small plain headstone in his family’s plot. Every day people show their “respect” play placing pennies on it facing downwards.
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