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TIL that the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald would sometimes go to Dealey Plaza and sell her autograph for five dollars

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MpBa TIL Johnny Depp adopted his horse GoldenEye from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. After hearing the one eyed horse was to be put to sleep, Depp jumped in and adopted him.
WkwGo TIL that Isaac Asimov died of AIDS complications and his family covered up the cause of death for 10 years. He had contracted AIDS from a transfusion during heart surgery in 1977
Amgw TIL: “Generational Curses” may be a real thing. There was a study where mice were given a small shock to the foot at the same time as the smell of acetophenone. After 10 days, they mated. The children mice inherited a fear of the odor even though they had never been exposed to it before.
NmM8 TIL for the film Dogma, Kevin Smith warned Jason Mewes that he needed to be on point due to the involvement of “real actors,” such as Alan Rickman. As a result, Mewes memorized his, and every other character’s dialogue in the screenplay because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude”.
awA40 TIL of Ball Lightning, an unexplained phenomena where a luminous ball of what looks like lightning appears at ground level, moving unpredictably and 'bouncing off buildings, people and cars'. Despite many accounts, very little is known about why it occurs.