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TIL that for his book 11/22/63 Stephen King conducted considerable research and extensively studied various conspiracy theories regarding the JFK assassination. He ultimately dismissed them and came to the conclusion that Oswald acted alone

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Xbr TIL as a young girl Jeanne Calment, confirmed to have live longer than anyone else in history (and whom died in 1997), met Vincent Van Gogh and remembering him as “Dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable”.
d8owE TIL that Swedish band Roxette gained fame in the US thanks to an exchange student, Dean Cushman, who brought their album back home with him from Sweden
7rAwX TIL that by 1880, horses in New York City deposited four million pounds of manure on city streets every day. In dry weather it would turn to fecal dust and choke pedestrians. Vacant lots were filled with the waste; these manure piles would rise up to 60 feet high.
8aWG8 TIL According to “The Impact of Disease on the Civil War”, 3/5 Union troops died of diseases. 63% of Union fatalities were due to disease, 12% due to wounds, 19% of Union deaths were due to death on the battle field. Likewise, 2/3 Confederate troops died of infection.
k6AB TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows Vista, because the original code was written by an outside company and Microsoft couldn’t find the collision detector in the code!