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TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.

b6oRN TIL that there were four Bronze Age wizards who wore huge conical Golden Hats.
Wwo4 TIL some people can “flex” muscles in their inner ears to produce a low rumbling sound
wR86 TIL That Many State Prisons in the South (especially Texas) do not have air conditioning.
6x6w TIL barcode readers actually scan the white parts and not the black parts
a8JpM TIL that Oliver Stone named the protagonist of Scarface (1983) after his favorite football player - Joe Montana