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TIL that in Dallas on Elm street where JFK was shot, there are X's on the street to signify where he was hit.

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P15an TIL twenty six people have died from chiropractic spinal manipulation.
6EoBJ TIL that AOL distributed so many CDs that at one point half of the CDs manufactured worldwide had AOL logos on them.
woYDo TIL in early 1942 the Battle of Los Angeles was fought, with an hour-long barrage of anti-aircraft artillery fired from the city against a perceived Japanese invasion. The cause: a stray weather balloon.
6AjX TIL that the U.S. Secret Service cracked down on fake money being used as movie props after an incident in which $1 billion in prop money was blown up during the filming of “Rush Hour 2” in Las Vegas. Some of the bills fluttered into the hands of people who later spent them.
wL10J TIL about Shigeru Yokosawa, a sixty-year-old hospital admin who sacrificed his life by, in the face of an approaching tsunami, rushing to retrieve the hospital's satellite phone. The phone he saved became his colleagues' only lifeline to the outside world after the disaster.