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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/firstpc13 on 2023-08-08 00:02:49.

Original Title: TIL the featured speaker at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, not Lincoln. He gave a 2 hour speech preceding the Gettysburg Address. After, he wrote to Lincoln “I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”