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TIL That the chair that Abraham Lincoln was setting on at the time of his assassination is displayed at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He acquired it from the widow of the Ford's Theater manager in 1929.

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1ap9D TIL: the case of Philip Clay, adopted as a child, deported as an adult; Clay ends up committing suicide. There are thousands of people like him, adoptees who did not know they were still not legally us citizens because their adoptive families never filled out the paperwork.
PY4DV TIL After Lord Nelson fell at the battle of Trafalgar, he was placed in a large cask filled with brandy in order to preserve his body during the voyage back to England
Zp4p4 TIL matt damon and ben affleck wrote a gay oral scene in the good will hunting script to see which executives actually read the script, harvey winstein loved the script but hated the scene which lead them to give him the rights
oRAjK TIL Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it in Deadpool. The estate agreed for a donation in that amount to a charity of their choosing. Ryan paid it himself because he felt you couldn’t have Deadpool without Bea Arthur.
KDGw TIL that when asked by his generals on his deathbed on who should succeed him, Alexander the Great may have said the name of one of his generals, “Krateros”. But because Krateros wasn’t around, the generals may have chosen to hear “Kratistos” or “To the strongest.”