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TIL at the night of 9/11, Iranians held vigils for the victims of WTC bombings

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Wk0PY TIL JFK and Lincoln were elected 100 yrs. apart.Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln,Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. Lincoln was shot in a teather and his assassin was cornered in a warehouse,Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin captured in a theater.
m1YEo TIL the Green Bay Packers are owned by a publicly held non-profit, the only NFL team of which this is the case
LQeQ0 TIL Osama bin Laden's brother died by (accidentally) flying an airplane into a power line
v5rr TIL Chef Boyardee of canned Ravioli fame was awarded both the Gold Star order of excellence from the US War Dept. & the Order of Lenin from Russia for supplying rations to allied troops during WWII
QJ8wd TIL of Army pilot Phil Rasmussen, who on the morning of pearl harbor, strapped a .45 to his pajamas and took to the skies to engage Japanese zeroes. He barely managed to land his plane, which some accounts say had over 500 bullet holes.