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TIL Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina, is still alive and still lives in Texas, the very state where her then husband killed President Kennedy.

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Wkwv4 TIL of a man who escaped prison so many times that a special maximum security prison was built for him. After it, the Governor made a promise to him "If you get out again, I'll forgive you". And of course he escaped again, and the Governor kept his word and set him free.
61nX TIL in 2004 Yale pranked Harvard into holding up “we suck” signs
nWoKb TIL that Bruce Lee was born in the US because his dad was on tour with the opera. This allowed him to later become a US citizen.
V9NB TIL: You have the EXACT SAME taste buds in your intestine as you do in your tongue. In your tongue, the buds are hooked up to your brain’s pleasure centers. In your intestine, they’re hooked up to your pancreas where they trigger the release of insulin.
epx8b TIL that Spanish football club Athletic Club Bilbao has a policy of only signing players who were either born in or trained in football in the Basque county.