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TIL that Eunice Shriver Kennedy, JFKs older sister, founded an athletics camp in 1962 for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp would go on to evolve into the Special Olympics.

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ADagl TIL that "Baby Huey" was a 400lbs Chicago soul singer who died at age 26 after releasing a single unsuccessful album. The album later became very influential on early hiphop artists, eventually being sampled on hundreds of hiphop tracks
WMlB TIL Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) warned an Admiral during a congressional hearing that he was worried the island of Guam would “tip over and capsize” if more US Marines were stationed there.
0w4lj Today I learned that 57% of Russians think moon landing was a hoax
WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
XVAD TIL that during World War 2, penicillin was scarce, so it was common to collect urine from patients to recycle the penicillin.