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TIL that Abraham Lincoln is believed to have both written and delivered the Gettysburg Address while suffering from smallpox.

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jNN1X TIL Conan O'Brien required reconstructive surgery on his nose after a street gang, “beat the shit out of [him].” The damage was so severe that, when asked the extent of the damage, Conan’s doctor said, “Broken? Good god, man, it’s a bag of bones!”
VMmnk TIL The band Fleetwood Mac seriously considered thanking their drug dealer in their album credits for Rumours.They ultimately decided against it after their drug dealer was murdered.
ANZMg TIL: Lulu (To Sir With Love) had a BBC-TV show in 1968. Her guest once was Jimi Hendrix. He was to perform Hey Joe, and she would join in. Earlier that day the group Cream announced they had broke up. Jimi switched midstream, live on TV, to Sunshine of Your Love. He was banned from BBC-TV.
g8J4 TIL a woman in Mexico performed a successful Caesarean section on herself without any medical training.
kJpwW TIL After assaulting two people, Monroe Isadore, a 107-year-old man from Arkansas, died in a shootout with a SWAT team.