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TIL that JFK took numerous medications during his time in office prescribed by a doctor nicknamed “Dr. Feelgood”. He was forced to stop administering Kennedy drugs by White House officials, and JFK’s leadership notably improved, leading to successes such as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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9w5W6 TIL one of the first references to the mile high club was found in a betting book of a london gentlemans club. It read "LD. Cholmondeley has given two guineas to LD. Derby, to receive 500 Gs whenever his lordship fucks a woman in a balloon one thousand yards from the earth"
69wGY TIL that Bayume Mohamed Husen, a Black German born in East Africa who served in the German army during WWI and later worked as an actor in Nazi propaganda films, was arrested by the Gestapo and died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1944 for violating Nazi racial laws.
MeZG8 TIL that Sweden had a chance at Norways oil resources for 40% of Volvo back in the late 70s, but Volvo shareholders believed it was being sold too cheap and declined. Norway oil fund is now over 1 trillion $ and Volvo was sold in 2010 to a Chinese company for 1.8 billion.
7rbJX TIL eating boogers is good for your immune system and teeth.
yQRQM TIL when kerosene disrupted whale oil for lamps, two companies—Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie—discovered how to harden whale oil into margarine. They bought up all the whale oil, met with success and are a $150B corporation today, better known as Unilever!