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TIL Abraham Lincoln wrote a "true crime" mystery story in 1846 based on a real case he defended. One brother confessed to a murder and implicated his two siblings, but Lincoln exonerated them all when the "victim" was found alive in a nearby town, suffering from amnesia.

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OGXmY TIL Historians rediscovered the tomb of the “missing pharaoh” Thutmose II the first new royal tomb found since Tutankhamun.
9YOa6 TIL that for the 1952 British Columbia election the Liberal/Conservative coalition introduced a ranked choice voting system with the hopes of keeping the surging Co-operative Commonwealth Federation out of power...it backfired and instead gave a majority to the fledgling Social Credit Party instead
yQXEw TIL: The phenomenon of a shower curtain bursting inwards the bathtub with a running shower has not yet been explained, despite several theories.
xNDg TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.
w8K6 TIL that we have been warned that Iran will have obtained a nuclear bomb “within years” since 1984.