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TIL Conan O'Brien made a video in Haiti to show positive, beautiful sides of the country and also made a speech in Haitian Creole to the locals

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aJR9 TIL French revolutionary soldier Jean Bernadotte had “Death to Kings!” tattooed on his chest. He later went on to become King of Sweden and Norway
4XJ96 TIL that flatfish (turbot, sole, halibut, etc) start off round but then morph into flat bodies, with their eye coming around to the other side of their head. (Video of this linked.)
e0xng TIL that some experts theorize John F. Kennedy might not have lived out his term, even if he hadn't been assassinated. He suffered from Addison's disease, and would have likely been bedridden or dead by 1965 or 1966.
bodE TIL that NASA did not actually spend $12 billion on a Space Pen while the Russians used a pencil.
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