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TIL A Nashville music promoter tried to open a for-profit museum about the JFK assassination at the Dallas Texas School Book Depository building in the 1970s. Floors of the building stayed empty until the Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 in response to the many visitors who visit Dealey Plaza

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166W8 TIL that Canadian hero Isaac Brock defeated American forces by using scam tactics, such as having his forces wear cast-off uniforms to make the Americans believe that they were the feared British redcoats.
v1RgD TIL: Of Nutty Narrows Bridge; a bridge built in the treetops during the 1960s specifically to help squirrels cross a freeway in Washington without getting hit by cars.
Q7nE TIL that Stalin tried to kill Yugoslavian leader Tito 22 times. Tito then wrote him a letter reading “Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
a08L TIL that Cheryl Bentov, the woman who seduced Mordechai Vanunu into going with her to Italy where he was subsequently kidnapped, transported to Israel to face a secret trial and sentenced to 18 years in prison, works as a real estate agent in Longwood, Florida.
woYxJ TIL that Canada's Stay Alert, Stay Safe campaign, featuring Canada's answer to McGruff the Crime Dog, Bert and Gert the Bunnies, got started because the creator's daughter was the victim of a deadly kidnapping, like with Adam Walsh and Code Adam