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TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was stabbed to death.

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d8m4Q TIL that Harrison Ford, who'll play Indiana Jones in a 2021 sequel, is actually a year older than the actor who played "old" Indy on the 1990s TV series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."
nrrW TIL Texas keeps a database of the lasts words of everyone executed on death row
8aJdX TIL that some ancient sling bullets excavated from the city of Athens, Greece were inscribed with the word "ΔΕΞΑΙ" (dexai), which translates to "catch!"
4kAn6 TIL that the N1, the rocket developed for the Soviet moon landing program, had a missile variant designed to deliver 17 multi-megaton nuclear warheads, essentially destroying the entire United States in a single launch
wo0d6 TIL that Victor Miller who wrote the screenplay for the original 1980 horror movie Friday the 13th hasn't watched any of the sequels, because he was upset that the franchise producers made Jason into the killer instead of it being his mother like in the original.