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TIL JFK's maternal grandmother, Mary Josephine Hannon(1865-1964), outlived him by 10 months and never knew he was assassinated.

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Eggp0 TIL Pineapple is not a citrus fruit but a group of berries that have fused together.
P1OMe Today I learned a pole with a orange sock is called a wind sock. It tells you the direction the wind is coming from
5YdWB TIL if you won the lottery in Australia, you had to go public with your win, turning into an overnight celebrity. This was until the abduction & murder of Graeme Thorne, 8, whose family won the lottery leading to Graeme being abducted for ransom but killed.
pYP64 TIL of Patrice Lumumba- arguably the Godfather of Africa's reclaiming of independence. He led Congo to independence in 1960 (from a colony of Belgium). He was a charismatic leader who embodied the struggle for African unity, and the complete eradication of European colonialist power in Africa.
6EB1J TIL that the forbidden fruit in the Bible is never defined as an apple. It is in fact a mistranslation that originates from the fact that the tree is defined as as "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" and that in Latin, mălum means evil while the very similar word mālum means apple.