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TIL Larry King crashed into John F. Kennedy’s car in 1958. JFK said he’d forget the whole thing if King promised to vote for him when he ran for president.

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YagW TIL people born in the Pacific Northwest have the cleanest English dialect
4kAdb TIL that Brachycephalic dogs are more likely to die during air travel than dogs with normal-length muzzles.
1aowX TIL about swedish carolean soldiers and how their battle tactic consisted of marching so close to the enemy, that the white in their eyes was visible. They were not scared of death, as their strong belief in God told them it was their fate to die in battle.
rNOv1 TIL Brad Pitt became persona non grata (a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country's government), in the People's Republic of China after he appeared in the 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet.
KO7E4 TIL the 1979 disco hit "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" almost became the national anthem of Sierra Leone after a 1992 coup.