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TIL that hours after the JFK Assassination, newly sworn in Lyndon Johnson was almost shot and killed by a Secret Service agent.

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R7PZl TIL about tactile illusions, including Aristotle's Illusion: if you cross your fingers and touch the tip of your nose with the tips of both crossed fingers, it feels like you're touching two noses.
nWlZb TIL about Bill Blackbeard, the man who saved comics, literally. It is estimated he saved 350,000 Sunday strips and 2.5 million dailies in the 1990s.
b95Nj TIL that back in Roman times they used to celebrate the new year in the month of the first harvest after winter, which was March. That makes March the first month of the year, and Sept Oct Nov and Dec indeed the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months.
KOxwR TIL that one of the slogans of the 1972 Nixon campaign was "They can't lick our Dick".
ep4WE TIL that Common Law Marriage is only actually recognized in 7 U.S. States and DC