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TIL John Wilkes Booth was surprised to find little public sympathy after his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Formerly anti-Lincoln newspapers condemned the act and while some Southerns were happy Lincoln was dead others feared it would spur retribution upon the already defeated Confederate states.

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4GPo TIL Medieval Castles went up in a clockwise spiral to give defenders a sword fighting advantage
dDy7B TIL William Thomas Turner, the captain of the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a U-Boat in 1915, was also captain of the troopship SS Ivernia when it was sunk by a U-Boat in 1916. His son, Percy Wilfred Turner, was killed in 1941 when his ship, the Jedmoor, was sunk by a U-Boat.
v1R8L TIL of The McKee Sons, a freighter that ran aground in the Detroit River on Christmas Eve while delivering almost 12,000 tons of coal
8XO8 TIL the word “gorilla” comes from the Greek word meaning, “a tribe of hairy women.”
8PbG TIL that an Indian airline only hires women because they are lighter, so they save up to $500,000 per year in fuel