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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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m1Oly TIL that Hamida al-Attas, Osama Bin Laden's mother, was just 14 years old at the time when she became Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's (48 years old) concubine before she was impregnated and married off to Mohammed Bin Laden's business associate, Mohammed al-Attas.
96Jm TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who is searching for his twin on Facebook
Zmpp TIL Dave Matthews’ older sister, Anne, was murdered in 1994 by her husband, who later killed himself. Dave and his sister Jane then began to raise Anne’s kids.
Rx64 TIL that in 1972 a scientist created a ‘Rat Utopia’ as a social experiment to study population density, and within two years the population dived Into a irreversible decline unto extinction.
N71P1 TIL Bruce Almighty director Tom Shadyac suffered a head injury in 2007 and completely dropped out of the film industry afterward. He also sold a majority of his possessions and moved into a trailer park.