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TIL When JFK was running for office in 1946, his father paid a man with the same name as his biggest opponent to run for election, thus confusing voters and taking votes away from the true opponent.

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wLmDP TIL on Nov. 26, 1977 a television station in southern England had their broadcast hijacked by an entity referring to itself as Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command who disrupted regular programming to give a six-minute message about humanity's future. The mystery has never been solved.
4XXjo At the center of the case was a beautiful young woman named Grace Marks. But was she really responsible for the crime?
vpWB TIL Goldman Sachs helped Greece hide its debt….and then bet on Greece’s failure to repay that debt
8aw8G TIL the US Navy uses Xbox controllers to control their submarine periscopes.
b6Pa9 TIL Tom Hanks owns more than 300 typewriters. His fascination runs so deep that he even developed an app, Hanx Writer, designed to emulate the feel and sound of a classic typewriter on modern devices.