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TIL that Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day in the same year

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e0WG6 TIL my theory of doorways causing that forget what you're doing effect is real.
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d8VLZ TIL that the deadliest forest fire in history, the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, remains largely forgotten even after destroying over 1.2 million acres and 2,500 lives because on the same day, October 8th, the Great Chicago Fire happened.
4XQYX TIL about Kiyoshi Shimizu, a Japanese journalist that helped solved a series of child kidnaping cases and released an innocent man from further prosecution. He also helped solved the murder of Shiori Ino which led to the changes to legal treatment of stalking in Japan
9DNr TIL Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin wants to build a bridge across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. This would make possible an almost 13,000 mile road trip from New York to London.