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paw8 TIL Lincoln, NE was named after Abraham Lincoln as a ploy to keep Nebraska’s capital as Omaha. Many people in Nebraska had been sympathetic to the Confederate cause and it was assumed that the legislature would not change the capital if the new capital were named after Abraham Lincoln
gGV4 TIL in 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
BAgy TIL of an organization that crowdfunds money to buy debt (for pennies on the dollar) and forgives it.
Lkg4r TIL that almost every alphabetic writing system in the world is a descendant of the Phoenician language.
78LbM Til in 2000, a convicted murderer on death row's execution was denied because he was "too fat to hang"