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TIL of James William Boyd, a Confederate soldier who disappeared. It has been theorized that he was John Wilkes Booth’s decoy after Lincoln was assassinated.

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r7O1 TIL the man Reddit falsely accused of being the Boston bomber was a dead missing person
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