cool facts about lincoln;

- lincoln's formal education consisted of about 18 months of schooling, but he was largely self taught and an avid reader.
- he was a talented local wrestler and and skilled with an axe.
- he avoided fishing and hunting because he did not like killing animals, even for food.
- he began his political career at the age of 23.
- in 1837, he made his first protest against slavery in the illinois house, stating that the institution was "founded on both injustice and bad policy."
-possibly the most notable criminal trial of lincoln's career as a lawyer came in 1858, when he defended william "duff" armstrong, who had been charged with murder. the case became famous for lincoln's use of judicial notice — a rare tactic at that time — to show that an eyewitness had lied on the stand. after the witness testified to having seen the crime by moonlight, lincoln produced a farmers' almanac to show that the moon on that date was at such a low angle that it could not have provided enough illumination to see anything clearly. based almost entirely on this evidence, armstrong was acquitted.
- before being assassinated lincoln related a dream to his bodyguard, ward hill lamon, of his own assassination.
- dude was shot like, point blank in the back of the head but survived for nine hours in a coma before he died.
- lincoln did, even as a boy, largely reject organized religion.