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TIL JFK experienced chronic back pain. He underwent 4 back operations, including a discectomy, an instrumentation and fusion, and 2 minor surgeries that failed to improve his pain.

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0w9by TIL that Thomas Jefferson created his own version of the Bible, using a razor to cut out the 'supernatural' parts, such as the miracles and the resurrection. Today, new members of Congress receive a copy upon election.
KOoAa TIL that in 2015, New York City went 12 days without a reported homicide. It was the longest streak since the NYPD began recording statistics with a computer program in 1994. The previous record was 10 days.
PYoNO TIL About Einstein's "Year of Miracles". In one year he published 3 papers that changed modern physics. The first about the particle theory of light (won him his Nobel Prize), the second led to people accepting the existence of atoms, and the third introduced special relativity (E=mc^2). He was 26.
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