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TIL That there are no living descendants of Abraham Lincoln, his Great-Grandson having died in 1985 with no children.

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epPwD TIL there is an inmate on Texas’ Death Row called William George Davis. He was a former nurse, who was sentenced for killing 4 people by injecting air into their arterial systems. He supposedly did this to extend the patients time in the ICU letting him earn more overtime pay.
kNnm TIL America is the only country to pronounce Z as Zee, the rest of the english speaking countries say Zed
LQM4p TIL that the line "they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night" in Bruce Springsteen's classic hit song "Atlantic City" is in reference to slain Philadelphia mob boss Phillip "Chicken Man" Testa. Testa was assassinated by his own underboss Peter Casella, using a nail bomb as the weapon.
QJdlX TIL Steven Seagal was choked unconscious and promptly lost bowel after proclaiming his Aikido training would render him immune to chokes.
69GN8 TIL the only Olympic Medalist to become disabled and then win a Paralympic Medal is Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres. After winning a bronze in 1988, he lost the use of his legs in a traffic accident and won gold in wheelchair fencing in 1992.