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TIL Mr. Rogers made a legendary Emmy acceptance speech that shut everybody up & left people in tears

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e0be4 TIL that in Abraham Lincoln's time in the Illinois legislature, he once leapt out of a first-story window in a failed attempt to prevent a quorum from being present. The doors of the Capitol had been locked to prevent legislators from fleeing.
0v01 TIL that Pablo Picasso was questioned as a possible suspect when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911.
65Zw TIL Genghis Kahn once executed someone by pouring molten silver into their head