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TIL that a man who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination as a young boy lived long enough to be on a game show in 1956

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EQNp TIL that 12 cyanide pills were kept in the cockpit of the Enola Gay, and pilots were instructed to take them if the mission was compromised during the bombing of Hiroshima
8aKjG TIL: During the 2014 Sochii Olympics in Russia, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak—responding to complaints about facilities—claimed the problems were due to sabotage and their surveillance video of people's behavior in hotel showers proved it.
x6561 TIL the Mercenary War (264–241 BC), also called the Truceless War, saw Carthage having to fight the mercenaries it previously hired due to a dispute over the payment of wages arrears, joined by revolting cities in the hinterland
vmoj TIL that five cow skins are needed for a Porsche interior. Their production amounts to roughly 165000 cars a year (2013 report). 452 cars per day. 2260 cows a day.
KOnPQ TIL there was only 66 years between the first flight and landing on the moon