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TIL JFK was one of the first presidents to pardon a turkey for Thanksgiving on Nov 19, 1963. The 55lb bird out lived the president as Kennedy was assassinated just 3 days later on Nov. 22nd.

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D6EP TIL the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland once used real skeletons taken from UCLA’s Medical Center. Rumors still persist that a few of them still remains in the attraction.
pYY7A TIL the 2010 Lexus SC 430 was the last car to come with a cassette deck in the United States.
0d0Ov TIL that water can boil and freeze at the same time under the right conditions, known as the triple point, where all three phases—solid, liquid, and gas—coexist in perfect equilibrium at 0.01°C and 611.657 pascals.
XpdQ TIL J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”, once confessed that he left a poisoned apple on his tutor’s desk.
PyVO Til once a star creates Nickle 56 through fusion it has a mere minutes of life left. This is because Ni 56 decays to Fe 56, which has one of the highest bonding energies of all isotopes and is the last exothermic reaction in nuclear fusion.