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TIL The false rumor of Joseph Kennedy being a bootlegger didn’t surface until the late 1960s when conspiracy theorists were looking for reasons why organized crime may have played a role in the assassination of JFK.

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9jpr TIL of the Japan Air 123 accident, the deadliest single aircraft crash of all time. Crew could not control the plane so they used thrust to go up and down and differential trust to turn. It crashed after 32min. No simulation reconstruction held out as long as the crew did.
E7yd TIL that MIT engineer Dennis Klatt synthesised Stephen Hawking’s ‘voice’. Hawking subsequently requested to keep that voice throughout every upgrade of his system.
WkgB TIL World War III could have started on 1 July 1945 with a sudden attack against the allied Soviet troops according to a plan ordered by Winston Churchill.It was rejected later considering it was militarily unfeasible.
bdQ0 TIL that one man won $6 million in one night from one casino. Don Johnson singlehandedly ruined the Tropicana’s April 2011 revenue through blackjack; he’d already won $9 million at two other casinos. He is now banned from most Atlantic City casinos.
DwAJ TIL The family store Walgreens sells hardcore Sex Toys