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TIL President Kennedy was the the last presidential candidate to win the presidency without carrying Ohio.

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QJMBL TIL that karate dojos are structured so that the lowest ranking students are nearest to the dojo entrance, meaning in the event of an attack the students would be killed first and the sensei would remain safe.
dD4gZ TIL while filming “The Other Side Of The Wind” in 1970, director Orson Welles was unable to afford to pay his cinematographer Gary Graver for his work. Instead, Welles gave Graver his Oscar statuette that he had won for Best Original Screenplay for “Citizen Kane” in 1941.
oBLdL TIL that the entire Hard Rock Cafe company is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
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R5LXa TIL the arabic word for Hell, "Jahannam", is directly derived from Gehenna, a valley in Jerusalem.