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TIL the man who tried to save Abraham Lincoln went mentally insane and tried to kill his family.

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R5Rj4 TIL about the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. The daughter of Thutmose I and his first wife, she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, and was his first wife. When Thutmose II died, she became regent for the baby Thutmose III, her husband's heir by another wife. She ruled 22 years until her death.
MvEb TIL Frank Sinatra never learned to read sheet music his whole career
WkOQA TIL garter snakes are actually mildly venomous. Nevertheless, they are incapable of seriously harming a human—though rarely, their bites have caused some swelling and bruising.
1pMD TIL The US is “leasing” the Guantanamo Bay land from Cuba and writes them annual checks, which they do not recognize and have not cashed for decades.
rmQ0 TIL there is a tribe in India that has passed down for generations the art of manipulating tree roots to create a system of “living” bridges.