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TIL Abraham Lincoln was the tallest ever US president at 6’4 / 193 cm

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vPwwL TIL the children's book The Iron Giant was based on was written by Ted Hughes, the husband of Sylvia Plath.
joPa TIL that when a Soviet anthropologist exhumed Timurlane, he found a transcription that read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” The exhumation occurred on the same day that Germany invaded the USSR.
J1gxv TIL there's an actual duo named "Ebony and Ivory." Ruth Eisenberg and Margaret Patrick had both experienced a stroke in 1982, becoming partially disabled. They eventually met and began playing piano together, one hand each. Their story was named after the song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
vPGD TIL the NBA was created by owners of hockey arenas looking to fill the stadiums on empty nights.
vdN7 TIL that Mythbuster’s Grant Imahara built the R2-D2 in Star Wars Ep.1&2, and the Energizer Bunny