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TIL JFK’s Harvard essay was only five sentences long

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1kdV TIL Will Purvis, who was convicted of murder in 1894 and had always maintained his innocence, told the jury he would “live longer than the lot of them”. He survived a hanging, was re-incarcerated, and eventually pardoned and released. He died in 1938, three days after the last juror had died.
69Wvm TIL Anne Rice author of Interview with the Vampire wanted English actor Julian Sands to play the role of Lestat and was disappointed with the studio's pick of a better known Tom Cruise. She unsucessfully proposed alternate picks. Despite this rice was subsequently pleased with Cruise's performance
9Yg96 TIL the tubular cavity of a chimney is called a flue and was JK Rowling's inspiration for naming Floo Power (despite her not knowing exactly what it referred to)
9YjJ6 TIL, You aren't supposed to store potatoes beside onions. Onions give off a gas to age potatoes faster
Rbp9 TIL Warm water freezes faster than cold, and that scientists still don’t know why.