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Lincoln Trivia - from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
Do you think you know everything our 16th president? Check out some little known facts about Abraham Lincoln:
  • Abraham Lincoln was the first president born outside the original thirteen colonies. He was born in Kentucky, moved to Indiana before arriving in Illinois.
  • At 9 years old, Lincoln nearly died when he was kicked in the head by a horse. He lay unconscious all night- some neighbors thought he was dead-before waking in the morning.
  • Lincoln carried letters, bills and notes in his stovepipe hat.
  • Multiple Oscar winner, Tom Hanks, is thought to be a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln.
  • Lincoln related a dream he had about being assasinated to his wife and friends three days prior to his death.
  • Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln was once on a crowded train platform and fell into the space between the platform and a train. He was pulled back onto the platform-and possibly saved from injury or death-by Edwin Booth, John Willkes Booth's brother.
  • If you use a magnifying glass, you can see Abraham Lincoln sitting at the Lincoln Memoria on the back of a penny

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