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TIL that William McKinley was the first president to ride in an electric car - the ambulance that took him to the hospital after he was shot by an assassin.

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R7nJj TIL about Bhopal, the 33 yr old site of the worst industrial accident in history. Never being addressed, the site is still actively killing people to this day.
5DBn TIL that Denmark was one of the few countries that resisted turning over its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust. The Danish king told the PM at the time that if the Germans tried to force Danish Jews to wear a yellow star, then he would wear one too.
0wwnL Hard to know, says Will Harcourt- Smith, an expert on early-human fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
8eQ6L TiL Liv Tyler kept her elf ears from The Lord Of The Rings, but they melted when she left them in her car.
BEDL TIL A Private Collector Paid 1.5million for Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape, to keep it a secret