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TIL: The same night Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, she reportedly gave him a Rolex Day-Date with the inscription “JACK, with love as always from MARILYN, May 29th 1962.” JFK told an aide to “get rid of it,”

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VBw84 TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the city of Verdun’s defence system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 100,000 casualties to retake it.
9Y6D TIL that there is a book sequel to Forrest Gump in which Forrest helps develop New Coke, crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, meets Tom Hanks, and fights in Operation Desert Storm with an orangutan named Sue
1aWk4 TIL that on average, a person preoccupied with money problems exhibited a drop in cognitive function similar to a 13-point dip in IQ, or the loss of an entire night’s sleep.
v1D4r TIL of Joseph Pujol, master of Musical Farts. He would imitate birds, dogs, and other animals, play instruments, and inhale cigarette smoke and blow it back.
DQ4xv TIL that 20 of the top 100 US companies, by revenue, are just monetizing our health.