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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.
awZBM TIL that in 1921, a dog was put on trial for "catslaughter." He was represented by an actual lawyer, tried in an actual courtroom, in front of an actual judge, with an actual jury, who acquitted him for the crime.