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TIL that the word “googol” was coined by a 9 year old

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kJ054 TIL during the cold war NATO conducted an experiment to find the best way to shot down helicopters with their jets, to everyone surprise helicopters proved to be a formidable foe to Jets and managed to get up to a 5-to-1 kill ratio against Jets in close combat.
KYlrG TIL the joke question "who's buried in Grant's Tomb" arguably has several correct answers. President Grant was to be interred but his wife died shortly before the tomb's completion, so both were laid to rest there. Neither was technically buried, though. They rest in an above-ground crypt.
MLAB TIL the US State Department charges a fee of $2,350 to any individual who wishes to renounce his or her American citizenship.
9Y1R6 TIL One of the more plausible theories regarding JFK's assassination is that he was accidentally shot by a Secret Service agent reacting to Lee Harvey Oswald but fell down with an AR-15 in his hand when the follow-car he was in jolted forward
ZE1o TIL Byzantine Emperor Justin I was born a peasant and a swineherd, but rose through the ranks of the army and ultimately became its emperor, in spite of the fact he was illiterate.