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TIL even though he was a teenager during the Great Depression, John F. Kennedy confessed he really didn’t know about it until he read about it at Harvard.

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EKMP TIL when the platypus was first discovered, European naturalists were so baffled by it’s appearance that it was thought to be an elaborate hoax
mxOgE TIL cocktails became popular during Prohibition as juices were added to bootleg liquor to disguise the taste of ingredients like dead rat and wood tar
WkekX TIL That in 2006 ESPN/Disney traded legendary sports announcer Al Michaels to NBC for the rights to Oswald the lucky rabbit. Oswald one of Walt Disney’s early creations, making his first appearance in 1927.
oBrW8 TIL Shoplifters were using self service checkouts to scan expensive fruit and veg as carrots at a major UK supermarket chain. They were only discovered when the supermarket noticed they had sold more carrots than they’d ever had in stock.
x8WD TIL that Frank Sinatra was contractually obliged to be offered the role of John McClain in Die Hard, despite being 73 years old.