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TIL that after being shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, US President William McKinley told the artillery soldiers who were beating on Czolgosz to “Go easy on him boys.”

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e01Z5 TIL Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study by a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara. After comparing infection data to models, they concluded that the spread of the Black Death can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice".
QANX TIL that Jason Momoa got his trademark scar over 8 years ago while at a bar when someone slashed him with a broken beer glass, he received 140 stitches.
E1Ygx TIL among the thousands of men on the Normandy beaches on D-Day there was one single woman. Martha Gellhorn, a rogue war correspondent who stowed away in the toilet of a hospital ship and also happened to be the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
6mPJ TIL: In Australia, to encourage third party votes, if the third party candidate doesn’t win, your vote goes towards your second choice.
M7MlV TIL that the worst rail disaster in the UK was at Quintinshill in 1915, where a southbound train collided with a stationary northbound train that was "parked" on the southbound line to allow two late northbound trains to overtake it, one of which struck the wreckage of the troop train