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TIL that during his Illinois senatorial campaign, Lincoln claimed he didn’t believe in racial equality between blacks and whites of any kind.

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gM4yW TIL of Bert Schneider's controversial speech when he won the Best Documentary Oscar in 1975 for his Anti-Vietnam film Hearts and Minds. He read out a telegram from the Vietcong delegate to the Paris Peace Talks, thanking the antiwar movement for all they had done on behalf of peace.
yVQJe TIL John Wayne Gacy's brain was removed post-mortem and given to a Forensic Psychiatrist, who keeps it in her basement along with slices of all of his organs.
N7rN8 TIL that scientists have discovered a breed of banana which is immune to the fungus threatening the current kind of banana
GYKON TIL a 1970s East German currency shortage lead to the modern Vietnamese coffee industry
EwD0 TIL of Lyuba, the most well preserved Wooly Mammoth in the world. He skin and organs are in perfect condition, and scientists found her mother’s milk in her stomach, along with feces in her intestines.