Honestly, I don't think people appreciate just how much more interconnected the world was before the mid-20th Century population explosion.

Whenever I hear interesting tales from history, the same people, places, and events pop up together again, and again.

Just like how John Wilkes-Booth's brother saved Lincoln's son from being run over by a train days before JWB shot Lincoln.

Sometimes it seems as though the world only held a few dozen people 😅