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Jun 12, 2020

TIL that a topless, laid-back statue of Abraham Lincoln stands at a federal court in Los Angeles; sculptor James Lee Hansen explained in 1941 that "from a sculpturing standpoint, it’s better to show the body without any clothes, [so] that’s why I left ’em off"

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Jun 07, 2020

TIL The officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater left his post to go drinking… at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.

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Jan 20, 2020

TIL that the log cabin that Abraham Lincoln was allegedly born in and has since been enshrined by the National Park Service was determined to have been built at least 39 years after Lincoln's birth.

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Jul 27, 2019

TIL: That John Wilkes Booth was a well-known A-list actor, considered equivalent in status to Leonardo DiCaprio. He was a heartthrob and named “Sexiest Man Alive”

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