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TIL JFK’s first casket was buried at sea in 1966.

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BbnK TIL Ellen and William Craft escaped slavery in the American south. Ellen could pass for white so she pretended to be a white male slave owner on a trip with her black slave William. They traveled first class all the way.
nvQ7 TIL There is a Monastery in Portugal that has a specially designed well in its kitchen where fish would swim into its canals and get trapped, giving the Monks fresh fish every day.
x6Aa5 TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!
EweW TIL A 1992 issue of The New York Times reported on a list of grunge slang words. It was later revealed that these were made up on the spot by a 25 year-old receptionist for Sub Pop records while talking to the reporter.
RA8a TIL that the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.