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TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended Lincoln's second inauguration and was close enough to shoot him

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p8Rpe TIL that white mushrooms, cremini mushrooms, and portobello mushrooms are all the same mushroom but at different stages of growth.
awbVL TIL the last time there were two named storm systems in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time was June 18, 1959
QN1p TIL the term “River” in typography is when there are gaps in typesetting, which appear to run through a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.
a1mM TIL when Robert Downey Jr was eight, his father offered him drugs, which led him to a long life of substance and alcohol abuse. RDJ credits Mel Gibson with helping him get sober and narcotic free.
kNX1 TIL in 2013, Jennifer Friede, a Denver marijuana activist who had long championed marijuana as being safer than alcohol, died after getting fatally hit by a drunk driver.