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TIL Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated

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woxw8 TIL about the unsolved 1922 Hinterkaifeck murders in Bavaria, where six family members were killed with a mattock, and the murderer(s) lived on the farm with the corpses for days, feeding animals and lighting fires.
EgeMX TIL Philadelphia cream cheese was created in New York
rDr1 TIL that pistol dueling was a sport in the 1908 summer Olympics. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety.
5YpbD TIL that use of the word "road" for a fixed land route started at the end of the 16th century, with Shakespeare the first known user. Because of that, there are no roads in the "City of London" (London's medieval core): all the ways there had been named before the word came into the English language
rRmpM TIL John Kani (King T'Chaka in Black Panther) lost his left eye during a beating by South African police after returning home from a Broadway production of "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead," which was critical of apartheid. He subsequently won a 1975 Tony Award for his performance.