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TIL Lee Harvey Oswald’s tax returns won’t be released until 2017, along with other “sensitive” JFK assassination documents. Oswald’s military intelligence file, however, was destroyed in 1973.

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QNBYa TIL future actor Michael Clarke Duncan participated in the 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago, where he slid into third base, had a silver belt buckle stolen, and stole a bat from the dugout.
gMWQ4 TIL that some people pronounce the “s” sound by putting there tongue to their top teeth, and others make it by putting their tongue to their bottom teeth. They are know as “tippers” and “dippers” respectively.
amjN TIL that some interns at Google earn up to $90,000
XEv8j TIL About the World’s Longest Kayak, Coming in at a Whopping 500 Feet and Fitting Over 100 People
GY4JE TIL that on the side of Prussia in the Napoleonic War a woman named Friederike Krüger served disguised as a soldier and after the discovery of her gender was not only NOT thrown out of the army, but was allowed to continue fighting and was even promoted several times.