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R5wL1 TIL That When King Kalakaua was in the Mainland, in Kansas he got so drunk he passed out. The legislators had James Burns act as King Kalakaua. He noted that he was "never taken for a man of Color before" at the bottom of the newspaper
R5low TIL that the street address of Ms Kitty Dalton was published by a newspaper in a story about how she had turned down over 200 marriage proposals, writing "the belt of Miss Kitty Dalton hang the scalps of more than two hundred U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines"
9wdB6 TIL that John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln's son from falling in between a train and a platform, which would have killed the latter.