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TIL That the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert shortly before the Lincoln assassination. Edwin stopped Robert from being run over by a train on a crowded platform, after he had fallen forward on the tracks.

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