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TIL Abraham Lincoln was unpopular among both the north and the south before he died.

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7WmX TIL The Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition lists GTA San Andreas as the videogame with the largest voice cast, with 861 credited voice actors, including 174 actors and 687 additional performers, many of those performers being fans of the series who wanted to appear on the game.
WkkG4 "Lightning. It avoids the ocean but likes Florida. It’s attracted to the Himalayas and even more so to central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the north or south poles."
1X5r TIL George Carlin went off on his Vegas crowd: “People who go to Las Vegas, you’ve got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling…thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic… fucking people with very limited intellects.”
nWV4Y TIL a roller skating rink DJ named Chris Thrash bought a set of Showbiz Pizza's animatronic band called the Rock-afire Explosion, which had been popular in the 80s, and had new songs programmed and recorded for it and put on YouTube. He then opened up a Showbiz Pizza Zone restaurant with it in 2008.
dxLd TIL of an Austrian man named Adam Rainer, who is the only person in medical history to have been classified as a dwarf and a giant during his lifetime.