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TIL there is an illustrated edition of Hitler's autobiographical manifesto, Mein Kampf

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OG5X7 TIL about Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani Christian child labourer and activist who campaigned against abusive child labour in Pakistan. He was assassinated at the age of 12 for his outspoken activism.
nern9 TIL In 1915 a woman was found alive after her sister ran late to her funeral, then demanded she see her sister one more time. When they dug her out, the woman sat up and smiled, she went on to live for 47 more years.
E0OP TIL it is still illegal for unmarried persons in Massachusetts to fornicate.
xVp1b TIL that on the night that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, his co-conspirator was supposed to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson. The co-conspirator lost his nerve and got drunk instead
b6Lk7 TIL the lyrics to the song "Winter Wonderland" were written by Richard Bernhard Smith while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis treatment. He would die of the disease a year after the song was first recorded.