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TIL Kennedy bought 1,200 Cuban cigars hours before he ordered the trade embargo.

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D1LBY TIL that ultrasound, thought to lie outside of the human hearing range, can be detected by listeners when it is played in combination with sound in the audible range. The mechanism for this is unknown, but in June 2000, researchers verified it by using brain activity scans.
XE0wj TIL A man who summited Everest 12 times after recovering from shattered heels, has the last name "Cool"
GA7RG TIL Just two weeks before the 1892 U.S. Presidential election, First Lady Caroline Harrison died. The voters were unsympathetic and Benjamin Harrison lost re-election. Their daughter Mary served out the term as First Lady.
vaDK TIL that a person who deals with and persists through difficulty or hardship without complaint is a trouper, not a trooper
KOdyQ TIL the original Bozo the Clown, who died in 1997, had vision loss in one eye but fooled doctors by memorizing the eye chart so he could serve in WWII