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TIL of Samuel J Seymour, who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 and lived long enough to be featured on the TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” in 1956.

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e0R1E TIL that a 2002 episode of "The Twilight Zone" addressed the novikov self-consistency principle of time travel: a woman, played by Katherine Heigl, goes back in time to kill baby Hitler. She succeeds, but his mother adopts a child and raises him as Adolf. He grows up to lead the Nazi Party.
Brl5K TIL of the Mosuo people, a matriarchial society where its men have minimal responsibility in society, beyond "nighttime visits", raising their sisters children (but not their own), fishing and the occasional pig slaughter.
VBwaQ TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
LkRYV TIL that in Quitman, Georgia, US it's illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
EgEld TIL that the Teletubbies from the BBC Children's series had a hit single - "Teletubbies say Eh-oh!" - which reached Number One on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in December 1997. It remained in the top 100 for a total of 41 weeks and sold well enough to be certified double platinum.