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TIL President JFK had an affair with a 19 year old White House intern, including one instance where he dared her successfully to perform oral sex on his special assistant, Dave Powers

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694AQ TIL the lungs perform the vast majority of or bodies excretion. The majority of weight we lose daily is though our breath, not our butts.
69PgJ TIL The FBI would routinely assassinate Civil Rights activists throughout the 60's and 70's.
0deYA TIL about the SS Wien / SS Po the only ship to have served in both World Wars and sunk in both wars. The SS Wien was originally in Austrian service but in 1918 was sunk by Italian frogmen. It was then raised in 1921 and purchased by Italy serving until 1941 when it was sunk by British Aircraft.
NamM TIL “hocus pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”
9YG9G TIL that the river Thames in England is 47 million years older than the Amazon