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TIL that Abraham Lincoln once captivated reporters with a speech so riveting that the audience stopped taking notes and we have no record of what he said! It has since been known as "Lincoln's Lost Speech"

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8e6AL TIL that Christine Maggiore, founder of the HIV/AIDS denialist group Alive and Well, died of AIDS in 2008.
VM41D TIL that Queen Elizabeth II was a truck mechanic in the army
Lk6pZ TIL in 1993, Canada’s peacekeeping force in Somalia, the Airborne Regiment, brutally tortured and murdered a teenager. Once they returned, they were prosecuted, the regiment disbanded, and Canada’s military spending was reduced by 25%.
4k1EJ TIL of Hans Litten, a lawyer who cross-examined Hitler in 1931 about a violent attack on political opponents, hoping to show Germans that Hitler wanted to violently overthrow democracy. Refusing to flee Germany after Hitler took power, he was imprisoned in concentration camps until dying in 1938.
VBb8 TIL the Japanese currency is the ‘en’. It was Westerners who mistook it as yen.