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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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XoMP TIL Woody Harrelson’s dad was a contract killer who was thought to be involved in JFK’s assassination
684l TIL that if you are dyslexic in an alphabetic language like English, you may not be in a pictographic language, like Mandarin, as brain scans show them occurring in different places.
VBYQD TIL that Nazi Germany lost more soldiers in the battle of Stalingrad than they did on the entire Western Front
0Pny TIL The music used in the ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy advert was stolen.
ADAww TIL of Wilmer McLean, who’s house in Manassas, Virginia was in the 1st battle of Bull Run. He moved to Appomattox, Virginia, but 4 years later Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in his living room. His properties had one of the first, and last encounters of the Civil War.