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TIL former president John F. Kennedy, after his patrol boat was rammed during WWII, swam over three miles to the nearest island while pulling an injured crewmate with his teeth.

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MVwV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay about the universe begining from a “single originating particle” 80 years before the idea of The Big Bang.
axEo TIL Mountain gorillas are naturally afraid of chameleons and nobody knows why.
wLxno TIL Giraffes' closest relatives are Okapis, half-zebra, half-giraffe, and ossicones!
J1lDj TIL that the stunt pilot Charles Hamilton was known for often flying drunk and crashed over 60 times. However, he survived every time and instead died of tuberculosis.
l767V TIL attempted suicide was illegal in Britain in the late 19th century. The sentence? Hanging.