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TIL typical Australian bird kookaburras is a kind of kingfisher

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VMKnB TIL about Henry Rathbone, the military officer who was sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated. He was wracked with guilt over his perceived failure to stop the assassination and slowly went insane. He later murdered his wife in a fit of madness and spent the rest of his days in an asylum
8a8bX TIL "Death by misadventure" is a legally-defined manner of death, primarily attributed to an accident that occurred due to a dangerous risk that was taken voluntarily.
ZdRR TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”
4XavX TIL In San Francisco in 1876, railroad baron Charles Crocker built a 40 ft (12.2 m) tall fence around 3 sides of his neighbor because he (the neighbor) refused to sell his home to Crocker.
JEk TIL more people are bitten by New Yorkers each year than sharks.