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TIL due to a lack of family and friends in attendance at his funeral, the pallbearer’s of Lee Harvey Oswald’s casket were reporters.

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6E06m TIL Hitler loved Irish folk music. When Sean Dempsey came to play for him in 1936 there was no room for him to sit, which he needed to play. Hitler jumped up and ordered an S.S. member get down on his hands and knees and that Dempsey sit astride him while he played.
d9nE TIL that while filming Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, Anthony Hopkins memorised a seven-page courtroom speech and delivered it all in one go. Spielberg was so overawed he couldn’t bring himself to call him Tony and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot.
R5K69 TIL that much like The Book of Mormon where Jesus goes to America, an additional chapter of the bible appeared in the 19th century where Paul the Apostle went to England.
YGBx TIL that in 1807 the British Navy put together the West Africa Squadron. Slaver hunters that chased down any slaver ships they could find crossing the Atlantic, and fining them up to £100 per slave on board. Slavers would often throw slaves overboard to avoid paying.
YZlP TIL there will be a rare occurrence of TWO total lunar eclipses in 2014, one in April and one in October.