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TIL with today's medicine, Abraham Lincoln likely would've survived his assassination (his frontal lobes were undamaged and he died 10 hours after being shot).

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BYRD TIL: There’s an anime and manga in Japan called Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in Tokyo while taking a vacation on Earth and attempting to understand Japanese society.
eW1L TIL that in 2000 the major motorcycle companies of the world reached a gentlemen’s agreement to end a speed war of one-upmanship to try make the worlds fastest production bike, as they feared speeds would escalate to extremely dangerous speeds before it would end. A limit of 186 mph was agreed.
X0Yj TIL Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in Japan as “Monty Python and the Holy Sake Cup”
gXJ4 TIL Cows moo in “regional accents”
6EyE7 TIL one 1990 episode of Quantum Leap managed to predict some of the events of the 1996 Super Bowl. Not only did the screenwriter correctly predict that the Pittsburgh Steelers would be playing, the Steelers also ended up trailing by 3 at some points of the game, just like in the show.