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TIL: That Lightning McQueen's real name is Montgomery McQueen

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0d8nj TIL the last train robbery in the US was in 1970, at the San Antonio Zoo.
gQbX TIL that the Phillip J Seymour, the last witness of Abraham Lincolns assassination, lived long enough to be interviewed about it on TV
b9Ly9 TIL Memorial Day was started by freed slaves to honor soldiers who died during the civil war
ADQOl TIL that the Indian Government banned the use of Dolphins for commercial entertainment, calling them ‘non-human persons’, and declaring that it would be morally unacceptable to capture them for entertainment.
jwOM TIL that more people died during the Mao Era in China (49m to 78m) than all World War II casualties included (40m-72m). Making it the most mortiferous event in human history, only topped by the Black Plague in Europe.