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TIL there was a man who won the lottery 14 times
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TIL that every single bus in America must stop at all railroad crossings, open their door and driver's side window and turn down the radio ... all based upon ONE SINGLE crash involving a school bus and a freight train 86 years ago in Utah that left two dozen people dead.
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TIL A man was shot. He died 33 years later. His death was ruled a murder as a result of the shooting.
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TIL that Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel in 1842. As the challenged party, he would have the right to select the weapons used. He accepted the challenge and chose broadswords "of the largest size" in order to take advantage of his superior reach.
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TIL that the first known aqueducts were built by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the city of Nineveh around 700BCE - 400 years before the Romans built their aqueducts.
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TIL Nixon Thought LBJ Taped His Campaign Plane in 1968