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TIL the largest lynching in US history resulted in 11 Italian Americans being killed

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Bgoar TIL that Pro Wrestler Kevin Sullivan once wrote a storyline, or "Kayfabe", about his wife Nancy (ring name "Woman") leaving him for fellow wrestler Chris Benoit. The storyline would lead to a real-life affair between Chris and Nancy. The resulting marriage tragically ended in murder-suicide in 2007.
5YAEB TIL David Letterman awarded Chris Farley the title of “the finest entrance a guest has ever made.”
rVVx TIL at 78, Sam Whittemore was the oldest colonial soldier in the American Rev War. He ambushed a British unit killing 1 by musket &2 by pistol. He was shot in the face, bayoneted &left for dead in a pool of blood. Colonials found him alive,trying to reload. Despite a grim Dr diagnosis he lived to 96
J4GV TIL as a nod to Spielberg - who placed a kid wearing Yoda costume in his movie E.T. - George Lucas made E.T.’s race a part of the Galactic Senate in Phantom Menace
e0VJb TIL of a mysterious fossil animal from Petrified Forest National Park called Kraterokheriodon, known only from a single tooth so strange that it is impossible to classify what kind of animal it came from.