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TIL The presidential yacht of Yugoslavia, Galeb, was a former Italian and Nazi warship. The Nazis minelayer was sunk by the Allies in 1944 and Yugoslavia raised it, converting it to a yacht in 1952. Ship visitors include Queen Elizabeth II, Khrushchev, Nehru, Nasser, and Kurt Douglas.
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TIL about Abe Lincoln’s son Robert. Who’s life was saved by John Wilkes Booth’s brother: Edwin. He was a direct witness to the assassination of James A. Garfield and William McKinley, afterwards he was the minister to Britain. But, he never attended another presidential meeting, a jinx in theory.
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TIL about Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, a Paraguayan army major general who launched a coup against the dictator Alfredo Stroessner, successfully managed to overthrow and exile him, re-democratized Paraguay, signed a Paraguayan constitution with presidential term limits into law, and then stepped down.
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