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TIL the first female detective in the US, Kate Warne, foiled at assassination attempt against President Lincoln when she was 23

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8VnP TIL in the 1940’s Stetson Kennedy went undercover as a Klansman, gave Klan passwords to the writers of the popular “Superman” radio show, who used them in a story line in which Superman fights the KKK. Kennedy has been dubbed “the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan”
WJoY TIL the scientific name for the American bison is bison bison…. and the scientific name for it’s subspecies (plains bison) is bison bison bison.
D1VjD TIL that in the 60s Dr.Pepper tried to market itself as a hot drink, to try and sell more in winter.
4k40a Today I learned the the title for Aerosmith's song "Walk This Way" was taken from a Marty Feldman line in the movie Young Frankenstein.
6Eo8l TIL that the first marriage of Gioffre Borgia took place when he was just 12, and was a political marriage to the 16 year old Sancha of Aragon