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TIL that John F. Kennedy’s grandmother not only outlived him, but was never told about her grandson’s assassination.

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PYv8Z TIL the most dangerous frequency is at the median alpha-rhythm frequencies of the brain, 7 hz. At high volumes, infrasound can directly affect the human central nervous system causing disorientation, anxiety, panic, bowel spasms, nausea, vomiting, and eventually organ rupture.
WkPeX TIL the Simpsons softball episode is credited with saving at least two lives.
xVOQ0 TIL between 1963 and 1969 The Beatles won the New Musical Express' Vocal Group of the Year poll six times. Their only defeat in these years was in 1966, when The Beach Boys won instead.
ADgvn TIL that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US after cardiac and respiratory illness.
omwW TIL that in 2010 there was a ballot initiative in Washington to make the state seal include a tapeworm dressed in a three piece suit attached to the lower intestine of a taxpayer.