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TIL that James Buchanan was the only U.S. President to remain a lifelong bachelor.

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LQgJd TIL a chicken fell off the stage and on top of a cellist during a performance of the opera Boris Godunov in the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre in the 1980s, which used live chickens in the performance. A net was subsequently installed above the orchestra pit.
b9pV9 TIL of Joseph Trombino, Brinks truck driver, who narrowly survived an armed robbery in 1983 and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, only to be killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
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