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TIL JFK’s Harvard Application Essay Only Has 5 Sentences

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kAgB TIL R. Lee Ermey, best known as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, was the first retiree in the history of the Marines to be promoted.
P6vL TIL when TWA Flight 1 crashed into a mountain in 1936, surviving flight attendant Nellie Granger followed telephone wires for 4 miles to get help and call the TWA office and notify them of the crash. Nobody realized that the plane had crashed before the call. She then walked back with help.
9Ar TIL the record holder for most survived lightning strikes, at 7, was struck while operating a truck, inside a ranger station, on two separate occasions after running/driving away from the storm, and immediately after the seventh strike he had to fight off a trout-stealing bear with a tree branch.
ne8xr TIL of the Winsor Hum, a mysterious, low-pitched noise that has plagued residents of Windsor, ON since 2011. No one fully knows its origin.
pnAb TIL Chicago, nicknamed the Windy City, is named after the boastful loquacity of its politicians rather than the gusts that shoot between buildings