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TIL that Christopher Plummer was a great-grandson of 3rd Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott

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LkLb9 TIL Dandelions are not indigenous to North America and were introduced by European settlers
rRMPW TIL that Safety Beach near Melbourne, Australia was previously called Shark Bay due to the presence of many sharks . The name was changed in an attempt to attract tourists the area as they had previously feared swimming in a place called "Shark Bay".
JYBLm TIL Abraham Lincoln replied to a critic questioning emancipation by writing: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that"
eEO4 TIL that the shredded remains of birds that get sucked into jet turbines is called “snarge”.
ne1XW TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.