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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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