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TIL that the youngest soldier in the first world war (WWI) was an 8 year old from Serbia, Momčilo Gavrić (1 May, 1906 - 28 April 1993)

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nWpY7 TIL The policeman John Parker, who was assigned to guard the entrance to Lincoln’s box at Fords Theater, was not immediately fired after he was assassinated. He was even assigned to guard Mary Todd Lincoln afterwards, though she quickly dismissed him. He was only fired in 1868 for sleeping on duty.
aYgM TIL: In Wales in 1950 a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter. It is the reason capital punishment is outlawed in the UK today
mmeR TIL that Silfra - the freshwater fissure between the American and Eurasian continents - has water so fresh that divers can actually drink it.
b9pdN TIL during WW2, a 360 ft long prehistoric chalk horse figure on a hill in Britain, was covered over with turf and hedge trimmings so that German pilots could not use it for navigation during bombing raids.
BylK TIL until 1990, homosexuals were banned from immigrating to the United States.