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TIL President Kennedy had multiple conversations with President Eisenhower asking for advice during the Cuban missile crisis, and there are recordings of those phone calls.

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P1gde TIL an Indian Billionaire (owner of Haldiram's) hired hitmen to murder a poor, roadside tea-stall operator for not moving his stall away from near the billionaire's newest upscale food showroom. The attempted murder resulted in a guilty verdict for all involved.
orQ7 TIL Rhea Perlman moved in with Danny DeVito two weeks after meeting him in 1971, and they have been together ever since.
kJ0dE TIL Claude Shannon (the father of Information Theory) designed one of the first Chess playing machines in 1949 that could only handle endgames and no more than six pieces at a time
9w6OM TIL that the Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters: A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U, W, and ʻokina, which represents a glottal stop.
9w89r TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald's.