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TIL Abraham Lincoln Signed the Legislation to Create the Secret Service the Day He Was Assassinated

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MR8A TIL that Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910
OoLEY TIL In August 2006, NASA announced that they had lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission of the first humans landing on the moon
PkOO TIL To avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Kim Coppola changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.
16nM4 TIL there's a man known as "the pudding guy" who gamed American Airlines' loyalty program in the 1980's by buying 12,150 cups of pudding ($3,140) for over 1.2 million frequent flyer miles. Bonus: he donated the pudding to the Salvation Army in exchange for a sizable tax write-off.
ZpdBo TIL QB Jared Lorenzen is the heaviest quarterback to have played in the NFL, and has a Super Bowl ring to his name as Eli Mannings' backup. He struggled with his weight most of his life and succumbed to it at age 38 after an injury ended his arena football career and his weight ballooned.