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TIL that Leo Fender , the inventer of Fender Guitars never knew how to play the guitar

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OX16 TIL President John F. Kennedy was a huge James Bond fan. He viewed an early print of ‘From Russia with Love’ at the White House on Nov 21st, 1963. It was the last film he ever saw, he was killed the next day in Dallas.
loBJa TIL there were ethnic German villages in Turkey until the last villager died in 1999
awr5N TIL Elvis Presley's manager created and sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money from people who weren't buying Elvis products
aWaJ TIL John Tyler the 10th President of the United States has two living grand-children. He was born in 1790.
OoRAY TIL Jeremy Bentham's dressed skeleton is on display in the UCL Student Union. Bentham donated his body to science, but requested that after dissection, they preserve and dress his body in his own clothes, and bring him to meetings and social events. He died in 1832 and was moved to UCL in 1850.