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KO99w TIL That the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert shortly before the Lincoln assassination. Edwin stopped Robert from being run over by a train on a crowded platform, after he had fallen forward on the tracks.
loJGV TIL that a man named Ted Jorgensen had abandoned his son at birth. Years later, he got a visit from a biographer walking in his bike shop. The biographer asked him about his son who he had never heard of up until that moment, Jeff Bezos.
B7oW TIL- Benjamin Franklin is credited for the social innovation of “paying it forward”.
5VLvB TIL Chris Stapleton was one of the writers for “Your Man” by Josh Turner
mxR9O TIL that the Christian Cult called "The Children of God" encouraged its female members to enter into sexual relationships with potential converts to lure them in. Called 'Flirty Fishing', they 'successfully' lured over 100,000 men into the cult.