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TIL that Abraham Lincoln did not trust himself to carry or be around knives because he feared he would spontaneously kill himself.

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lo1M1 TIL A French doctor lured as many as 60 Jews into his home under the pretence of safety from the Nazi occupiers. He then killed them with his own gas chamber.
lEYG TIL that if you donate your kidney without specifying a recipient, you can start a domino donation chain getting thousands of people new matching kidneys.
DO9Y TIL that “Karma” in the way most people use and know it as is not actually Karma. Karma is something to be inherited in the next life, not in this current life, according to Buddhist philosophy.
nKyo TIL of 52 Hertz, the “Loneliest Whale in the World”, he sings and travels alone.
MAr0 TIL one man planted an entire 1,300 acre forrest by himself over the course of 30 years that now is a home to wild elephants, deer, rhinos, and tigers.