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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.

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obAL TIL of Momcilo Gavric, a seven year old who joined the Serbian army during WW1 after his parents were killed by Austrian soldiers. His first assignment was to point out the positions of the soldiers who had killed his family the day before. He was promoted to Corporal and later to Lance Sergeant
a8WYA TIL of the Maidenhead Railway Bridge in England. When it was built, its arches were the widest and flattest in the world. Critics feared the bridge was unstable, so the arches' centering was left in place, until it was destroyed in a storm - the arches stayed up, vindicating the design.
nebK9 TIL in 1961, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wrote a book called “Guerrilla Warfare”, which explained different tactics for waging guerrilla warfare in different countries. Bolivian counter-insurgency forces also studied this book, which eventually led to Guevara’s capture and execution in 1967.
4kvlw TIL That Bosnia and Herzegovina is a semi-viceroy. They have a “High Representative” that can change laws and override the country’s presidents. This power is actually used
ep7an TIL that a Peppa Pig episode was pulled off air in Australia as "inappropriate for Australian audiences" - in it a scared Peppa was told that spiders were "very, very small" and "can't hurt you". In 2016, a huntsman spider was videoed in Australia carrying a mouse up a fridge.