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TIL that the over the 4 days of the assassination and funeral of JFK, was the longest uninterrupted media coverage until September 11, 2001.

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vvBx TIL of a man who joined the Marines as a private, got promoted to Sergeant and then became an officer as a Lieutenant, then got discharged, enlisted as a Private again, then became an officer again, and ended up being a Lieutenant General
PYBRn Today I learned that Count von Count from Sesame Street has hypnotic powers, but only used them in two episodes.
v1Nex TIL that if you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon. It would take just 23 folds for a .1-millimeter piece of paper to be one kilometer thick, and 30 folds for it to be thick enough to reach outer space (100,000 kilometers). With 51 you will burn in the Sun.
6p4Y TIL that Phoenix is the only city to have a complete “sports equinox”, when all four major sports teams from a city play on the same day. On November 4th, 2001 the Cardinals (NFL), the Coyotes (NHL), and the Suns (NBA) all lost, while the Diamondbacks won game 7 of the World Series.
loXk7 TIL Prehistoric rock art in the Saharan desert indicates that there were ancient hallucinogenic mushroom cults as far back as 9,000 years ago. The mushrooms were used in rituals of a mystico-religious nature, with drawings of Gods draped with the venerated mushrooms appearing repeatedly