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TIL Left-handed guitarist Kurt Cobain was right-handed for everything else

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ONNX TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was present or near for the Assassinations of three America presidents (his father, Garfield and McKinley). He once refused a presidential invitation saying “I’m not going… because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present”
OowNY TIL The city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky has a yearly festival called "Kelly Little Green Men Days" to commemorate the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter of August 21, 1955 when small alien creatures invaded the home of the Sutton family.
GApKG TIL about Project Venona, the US effort to decrypt KGB/GRU intercepts leading to some of the greatest intelligence breakthroughs during the cold war. Including exposing critical Soviet assets, (ie. the Rosenbergs, David Greenglass, and Kim Philby)
kQmd TIL of LeMons, a series of endurance races where teams compete for up to 24 hours in race-prepared cars that cost no more than US$500. The title is a parody of the long running annual 24 Hours of Le Mans race, and lemon cars.
yX4v TIL a Canadian artist stopped an oil pipeline being built on his land by copywriting the top six inches of said land as his artwork.