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TIL Abraham Lincoln was a distant cousin to the father-and-son presidents WH and Benjamin Harrison.

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yQJl8 TIL of Roy Sullivan; a man who was struck by lightning 7 times throughout his life and died at the age of 71 by a self inflicted gunshot wound (rumoured to be the cause of an unrequited love)
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