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TIL a Group of Baboons is Called a Congress

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grBQX TIL that the last living person recorded to have been born in the 1700s, Margaret Ann Neve, was born in 1792 and died in 1903, 36 years before the start over WWII, only only 66 years before the moon landing. She could have heard George Washington speak, and heard the first radio in her lifetime.
OxpY TIL of the Voynich Manuscript. A 240 page book written in an unknown language in the 15th century that is comprised of illustrations of plants that don’t exist, and astronomical charts that seem alien in nature.
PYodL TIL on the evening of July 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy joked he wanted to smoke cannabis; so his mistress later brought him six joints to the White House. After three joints he felt no effects, but then closed his eyes and refused a fourth. "Suppose the Russians did something now," he said.
R7Wv1 TIL that Jackrabbits are hares
mxQOv TIL that Keith Richards Wrote ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ In His Sleep