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TIL John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, had slept on the same bed that a month later would become the President's deathbed

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b6vg0 TIL The first picture of Earth from space was taken by a WW2 era V-2 rocket built by the USA, after capturing German scientists who had worked on the 'Vengeance Weapon'. It was built with both captured Nazi Germany components and remanufactured parts.
lowVa TIL that there are estimated to be around 36 active communicating intelligent civilizations in our galaxy according to a research team from the University of Nottingham, UK.
0EWR TIL in 1995 a man deposited a junk mail cheque for $95,093.35, and it cashed. The bank took too long to realise and the money was now legally his.
G4NN TIL the first webcam was created to help people working in other parts of a building avoid pointless trips to an empty coffee pot.
Oo7v4 TIL that Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented pop-up ads has apologized to the world for creating one of the Internet's most hated forms of advertising.