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TIL John F Kennedy once had a 2 year long affair with beauty queen and actress Inga Arvad, even coming very close to marrying her. The relationship ended when Joe Kennedy discovered Ms Arvad had another man in her life- the one and only Adolf Hitler- and was under FBI surveillance as a result.

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dBJj TIL that beer hops naturally produce an acid that can kill off a parasitic mite known to annihilate entire colonies of bees. Hops have shown such promise to helping Colony Collapse Disorder, that the EPA has even approved their use as a biochemical miticide.
9Yerm TIL students at Saint Andrews University in Scotland have a tradition of stripping off their clothes and running into the freezing sea
XE1ER TIL Salvador Dali avoided paying restaurant tabs by using checks. He would draw on the back as the waiter watched, knowing no one would ever cash the art.
nvbd TIL that the Danish word for “Cruise Control” is “Fartpilot.”
WkJJo TIL that Michael Keaton refused $15,000,000 to play Batman Forever, because Tim Burton was dropped as its director