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TIL a Star was so Frequently Mistaken for Mars it was named Antares (anti-Ares) or ‘Not Mars’

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Z87Ma TIL that a man robbed a store while Marines were collecting donations outside. The subject was taken to the hospital with broken arms, ankle, leg, ribs, nose, jaw, several missing teeth. Injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb after stabbing a Marine.
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VNjQ TIL the assassin of President Garfield, Charles Guiteau, shot the President with a gun that had ivory grips because he wanted it to look good as a museum exhibit after the assassination.