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TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin was buried by reporters acting as pallbearers. No one aside from them showed up for the funeral.

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4XLLX TIL that the tin can was invented in 1810, but the can opener was not invented until 1855. Before the can opener people used hammer and chisel to open their tin cans
MeMGB TIL that though Japan is notorious for its long work hours, “American workers clocked in more average annual hours than Japanese workers in 2016.”
BrVZy TIL that it took E. B. White 17 takes to read the death scene of Charlotte, as he recorded the audio version of his book Charlotte's Web. He is said to have walked outside, come back in, and start crying again when he got to that moment, "a grown man crying over the death of an imaginary insect."
WkVgL TIL: Helen Keller was a radical socialist who ended up being investigated by the FBI most of her adult life.
pYZg8 TIL Juul paid one charter school $134,000 to setup a summer camp. The company had also offered other schools $10,000 to obtain the right to talk to students in the classroom and after school.