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TIL that in 2011, someone tried to sell a near-perfect fake of the Pontiac ambulance which had transported the body of President John F. Kennedy to his autopsy. Turns out the real one had been crushed in 1986 at the request of the Kennedy family.

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84aL TIL Douglas Bader was a legless flying ace (RAF) in WW2 . His success was partly because of his having no legs; pilots pulling high “g-forces” in combat often “blacked out” as the flow of blood from the brain to other body parts, usually the legs. As he had no legs he could remain conscious longer.
kOdNg TIL Willem Kolff created the first dialysis machine in the Netherlands during WWII. Lacking materials, he used sausage casings, tin cans, a washing machine, and salt water. He also saved more than 800 people from the Nazis by hiding them in his hospital. And he later invented the artificial heart.
R5Bkl TIL between 1990-1994, Bashar Al Assad was an eye surgeon in London and was described as geeky and quiet. His boss and colleagues recalled him as humble and whom nurses thought exemplary in reassuring anxious patients about to undergo anaesthetic.
mxkxP TIL about the COLFAX, LOUISIANA, MASSACRE (1873). Approximately 150 Black men were murdered by white men with guns and cannons for trying to freely assemble at a courthouse.
VJ0Q TIL There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.