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TIL President Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, was saved from a potential train platform injury by Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth.

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J11nm TIL that Michael Jordan had to put away his cigar in certain interviews in the last dance was because his mom saw and got mad at him.
woX8W TIL that around the globe, no country produces more electricity than China. At nearly eight million gigawatt-hours of electricity annually (7,779,100 GWh), China leads the rest of the world by quite a large margin, nearly double the amount of the second-ranked United States (4,286,600 GWh).
obGR TIL more cops have died of illness linked to 9/11 than had perished in it on that day
Xva6 TIL On ‘Three’s Company’, John Ritter’s scrotum was briefly visible through his boxer shorts. John Ritter told the NY Observer when asked him about the controversy “I’ve requested that Nickelodeon air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t”
5Yrmr TIL that in 1985 the mayors of Rome and Carthage signed a symbolic peace treaty to end the state of war between the two cities technically going back over 2100 years.