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TIL President Garfield’s assassin purchased the gun he thought would look the best in a museum.

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9dAp TIL During the 2001 Presidential Clinton-Bush transition, 62 new White House staff discovered the W key missing from their keyboards
v1yPB TIL of patient S.M, a female with a rare genetic disease leading to an inability to experience fear in her life. Additionally she experiences little negative emotion and has no sense of personal space; experiencing no discomfort standing nose to nose with strangers whilst making direct eye contact.
wLDxY TIL Margot Robbie worked at Subway before she was famous
8ap0Z TIL seven new rare earth elements have been found in the small Swedish village of Ytterby. Four of the elements are named after the village, ytterbium, yttrium, terbium, and erbium, the other three are holmium, thulium, and gadolinium.
GVZ4 TIL…Only two fighter aces in WWII where female, one was Soviet Lydia Litvyak, who in a Yak-1, a very dated and unreliable plane vs. the German Me-109 got 12 solo kills