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TIL President Kennedy's family repurchased the house where he was born in after his assassination. His mother restored the house to her recollection of its 1917 appearance and wanted to restore the home to the hour of his birth. She donated the home to the National Park Service in 1967

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mxEXP TIL Charlie Chaplin was the subject of an FBI investigation due to alleged communist sympathies during the height of McCarthyism. He later said "As for politics, I am an anarchist. I hate government and rules - and fetters ... People must be free."
XEVAk TIL thermal receipt paper should not be recycled as it contains BPA, an industrial chemical with potential health concerns. Experts say thermal receipts should be disposed of in the trash, and avoided whenever possible.
J1Ra1 TIL there is a province in Italy where 62% of the population uses German as their first language
r1K4 TIL that Tom Hanks in Castaway allowed himself to gain weight to fit the role of a middle-aged man. Production was then halted for a year so he could lose 50 pounds and grow out his hair for his time spent on the island. During the hiatus, Robert Zemeckis used the same crew for What Lies Beneath.
6NXJ TIL that a species of nematode was discovered living at depths of up to 2.2 miles deep, suggesting that an undiscovered biosphere may exist underground.