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TIL The longest flight lasted over 2 months, a record that hasn’t been broken for more than 50 years.

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oBDAA TIL of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person in the United States to be executed for attempting to sell human beings. Abraham Lincoln refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, despite thousands of people petitioning him for clemency.
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