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TIL There is a bar named Jack Ruby's Saloon in downtown Dallas mere blocks from The Sixth Floor Museum and Dealey Plaza (Site of JFK assassination). The history buff owner loves the fact that Ruby, who shot JFK's assassin, owned a bar and sells T-shirts that says "I took a shot at Jack Ruby's."

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rR11 TIL that Crows living in urban areas are known to gather nuts then place them in the street for passing cars to crack open the shells. Then, after waiting patiently for the light to change, they return to the street to eat them.They are also considered as 5th Smartest animals.
eORb TIL the name of the Crown Prince of Morocco is Hassan ibn Mohammed Al-Alaoui - Hassan bin Mohammed bin Hassan bin Mohammed bin Yousef bin Hassan bin Mohammed bin Abderrahmane bin Hisham bin Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Ismail bin Moulay Ali Charif
RAV6 TIL Spotify has a CPR playlist. All the songs on the playlist have a tempo of 100 to 120 bpm, which is the same tempo at which one should give chest compressions during CPR. Coincidently, two of the songs are: “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen and “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees.
VMD4G TIL That, while it is the most common position for nearly all animals, no one is quite sure why the sex position became referred to as "doggy style". In Latin it was known as "sexual intercourse in the manner of wild beasts" and in the Kama Sutra it is called "the cow position".
eKGL TIL the phrase “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle” originally comes from people expressing anti-darwinian sentiments.