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TIL in 2004 someone offered to pay the government $12 for information about aliens killing JFK.

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VBlyG TIL that Target uses color psychology- specifically the color red to attract consumers due to the color red being associated with energy, excitement, passion, speed, and impulse.
8exPX TIL that Jackie Kennedy became the First First Lady and first American woman to be awarded the French Legion of Honor, the highest civilian award by the French Government for her work as a cultural ambassador of the United States and contributions to U.S foreign relations.
Z8oYB TIL eight children were stabbed to death in the Osaka school massacre committed by Mamoru Takuma in 2001. He seriously wounded fifteen others and was executed for his crimes.
oRRYW TIL; In 1846, Joesph Leidy was the first person to solve a crime using a microscope. A famer claimed the blood on his clothes was chicken blood. Joseph Leidy showed that it was not chicken blood using a microscope.
OM44 TIL that even today, 68 years after the end of WWII, barely a week goes by without an unexploded bomb from WWII being found somewhere in Germany.