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TIL Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank in 1840. It was reported that this wasn't his first time doing this to prevent a vote.

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OGjPe TIL evidence of a precursor to warfare has been found at Nataruk in Kenya. Remains of at least 27 individuals have been found and dated to 7550–8550 BC. The condition of the skeletons indicates that a massacre took place as hands were bound and skulls were smashed by blunt force.
pvlZ TIL Monty Python’s album ‘The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief’ had double grooves on side B, meaning that depending on where you dropped the needle, a different set of tracks would play. Because there was no track listing, many fans were genuinely confused.
kOX9E TIL the producers of "Strange Bedfellows" sued Universal Studios, claiming that "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" had over 100 common plot points to their film, released three years prior - only to discover that the first draft of the script was written before production started on Bedfellows
5YKpk TIL about the Q source, a hypothetical text that, with the gospel of Mark, contain the original material that the gospels of Matthew and Luke elaborated upon. And the Q source theory got traction with the discovery of the complete copy of the gospel of Thomas in 1945.
XmNj TIL female tarantulas live up to 35 years, whereas males usually live less than a year