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TIL When Frank Sinatra collapsed on stage in 1994, his fans in audience included doctors and a half dozen of them ran up on stage to assist Sinatra

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1aX4X TIL LBJ as VP "invited" a Pakistani camel cart driver named Bashir Sarban to the White House. Though he said it as a formality, the governments of both the US and Pakistan made it happen. LBJ and Bashir had a meal at the Johnson ranch outside Dallas, and Bashir toured the country over a week.
wL9xo TIL To get a NYC taxi cab medallion in 1964 it cost $227,874.00 [adjusted for inflation]
loeWA TIL a distillery on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent produces a rum that is 84.5 % alcohol by volume (169-proof). It's so strong that travelers are banned from taking a bottle back home with them.
DVkV TIL that Vincent van Gogh’s last words were, “The sadness will last forever.”
0wgmy TIL in 1848, the first bridge built over Niagara Falls was started with a kite competition. A boy flew a kite across to the river to the opposite bank. The line he used carried larger and larger cables across the river used to start construction of the bridge