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TIL in 1963, a group of Catholic schoolchildren visiting the JFK eternal flame sprinkled it with holy water, accidentally extinguishing it

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Me7eW TIL that Abraham Lincoln (yes, THE Abraham Lincoln, the president of the USA) was a wrestler in his youth and that he invented the chokeslam (the chokeslam is not mentioned in the article).
OGLje TIL that in 1982, the members of the punk rock band Misfits were arrested in New Orleans because of grave robbing while attempting to locate the grave of voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau, but bailed themselves out of jail and skipped their court date to drive to their next performance in Florida.
4k66J TIL that upon losing the 2002 Senate Election in Minnesota, Former Vice President Walter Mondale became the first (and only) major party candidate in U.S. History to have lost a general election in all 50 states. He had lost in the other 49 states when he ran against President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
wLZ57 TIL that most of Peaky Blinders outdoor scenes are filmed at an open air museum dedicated to 300 years of local history called the black country living museum.
69KBZ TIL that in 2019, a small religious painting about to be thrown into a landfill was found to be a medieval masterpiece by Cimabue, lost in the 19th century. It was sold for €24 million euros before being acquired by the French Government