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TIL Lincoln’s son was dating Lucy Hale while she was engaged to John Wilkes Booth.

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74aM TIL of the “Euthanasia Machine” invented by Philip Nitschke, which asks the patient a series of questions, and automatically administers a lethal injection if the correct answers are made.
W741A TIL that, on average, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth and every other planet in our solar system.
J1g0v TIL that a Canadian citizenship ceremony had to be delayed when the queen died, because they didn't know who they were swearing an oath to.
R7M7a TIL if you plant an apple seed, it will grow a tree but that tree will most likely not produce an apple of the same type that the seed came from. This is due to a horticultural phenomenon called 'unfixed hybrids', and most trees are grafted rather than grown true from seed.
P1Pgn TIL: Ahmed Gabr, an Egyptian retired special forces army officer holds two Guiness World records for The deepest sea water dive and the deepest scuba dive (male) at 332.36m or 1090.4ft in the Red Sea in 2014.