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TIL Why The US Gov Reshapes The Mississippi River And What It Takes To Stop The Mississippi River From Changing Course.

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b6Z44 TIL: The Number of Centenarians in Japan Rises Above 90,000
nWWe7 TIL in 1966, Dr Cyril Wecht was the first person to discover that President JFK's brain had gone missing from the National Archives after his official autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, 1963. The chief pathologist in Kennedy’s autopsy later admitted he destroyed autopsy notes.
PYWrn TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.
jWpa TIL many words in the Greek language have no clear origin (including ‘labyrinth’ and 'tyranny’), and are thought to have come from an unrecorded 'Pre-Greek’ language spoken before the early Greeks arrived in the area
XnoR TIL Mozart had an older sister who was also an excellent musician.