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TIL that John Wilkes Booth was present at the hanging of John Brown.

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KEyR TIL that the flags of Haiti and Lichtenstein were identical by coincidence. The similarity wasn’t discovered until the two nations competed against each other in the 1936 Olympics.
Jkwm TIL that three years after signing with Don King, Mike Tyson didn’t even know that he had a fan club. When he finally went there, he found a letter from a woman wondering if Tyson could call her dying child. Tyson called, “hung up, cursed King and started to cry. The call was a year too late.”
8vN8 TIL: Today is the 40th birthday of the cell phone. The Nokia 1100 is the best selling cell phone ever.
6gJw TIL that in 2008 the Pittsburgh SWAT won the “aerial shoot” of that year’s International Sniper Competition at Fort Benning, beating out more than 30 teams from across the world, including U.S. Special Forces, Marines and Army snipers.
PGvJ TIL Artic Explorer Peter Freuchen was caught in a terrible blizzard and buried under a thick layer of snow and ice. When he couldn’t claw his way out, Freuchen whittled his own frozen feces into a knife and used it to chisel his way through.