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TIL Teenager protested CIA drone strikes, killed by a drone four days later

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6Emrl TIL When Andrew Johnson tried to fire his Secretary of War Stanton, Stanton refused to leave and locked himself in his office for weeks, refusing to let his successor in.
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7rMNO TIL that Marie Curie was buried in a lead-lined coffin (although it remains uncertain, if this was because of concerns over her radium contamination)