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TIL In 1901, while reconstructing Lincoln’s tomb, they opened his coffin to confirm he was still in there

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4o6a TIL in 1987 a 19 year old German flew a small plane across Russia to Moscow and landed it in Red Square without being detected by Soviet authorities.
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