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TIL After JFK was assassinated, there was a brief scuffle between local and federal authorities when the President’s security detail wasn’t allowed to remove his body from the hospital. It ended when the Secret Service agents put the local officials against the wall at gunpoint.

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OoZvL TIL about the Rosenstrasse Protest, where Non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men protested Nazi Germany's policy of deportation of Jewish men. It was the only mass public demonstration by Germans during the Third Reich.
OoMx6 TIL when ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was released, its box office experienced an unexpected success from the younger counterculture demographic who particularly enjoyed experiencing the Stargate sequence while under the influence of psychedelic drugs.
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84JG TIL That the Rockefeller owned Standard Oil was declared a monopoly, forced to split into 33 companies in 1911 including Exxon and Mobil which then re-merged in 1999 into ExxonMobil the 8th largest company in the world.