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TIL Abraham Lincoln signed legislation that created the Secret Service hours before he was assassinated.

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Zbmp TIL that Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are technically a single lake because the flow of water through the Straits of Mackinac keeps their water levels in near-equilibrium.
vP4KB Til Irving Berlin's first wife contracted typhoid fever on their honeymoon in Havana. She died 5 months later. He eventually remarried and was married for 62 years until his second wife's death.
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OonnL TIL World War I was the first war in which mass media and propaganda played a significant role. It was one the keys in convincing people to fight in the war. At the start of the war the British cut Germany’s undersea cables to influence the reporting of the war to the world.