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TIL Bill O'Reilly’s book “Killing Lincoln” isn’t sold at Ford’s Theatre because it is “riddled with inaccuraccies”

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QJB5e TIL in 1677 the Dutch gave away Manhattan for a small Indonesian island
ADZk7 TIL about Heinrich Kramer who, after being obsessed with a woman who rejected him sexually, went on to write Malleus Maleficarum, a book that explained how to find and destroy witches, causing the beginning of the massive witch hunt during the dark ages and the countless murders of innocents
PYV9E TIL that the last official engagement Australian PM Harold Holt was invited to before his disappearance in 1967 was a screening of a movie that cast a Malysian born actor and a and white actor as Indigenous Australians
R7N6w TIL that a marathon is exactly 26 miles and 385 yards because that happened to be the length of the 1908 London Olympic marathon and not because it is the distance between Marathon and Athens, which is approximately 25 miles.
40Xo TIL Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains