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TIL - George Foreman made more money from the George Foreman Grill than he did boxing

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QLL9 TIL that during one of his innumerable Presidential affairs, John F. Kennedy tore a groin muscle and had to wear a stiff shoulder-to-groin brace that prevented the reflexive ducking which might have saved him from the second, fatal, assassin’s bullet. (PDF: par 3 pg 5)
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