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TIL 75% of Americans do not believe Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of JFK, acted alone

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Djlv TIL that at the age of 10, Noam Chomsky wrote his first article for his school newspaper about the fall of Barcelona to Francisco Franco’s forces and the rise of fascism.
vwKD TIL a serial killer called the Grim Sleeper killed at least ten women from 1985-2007; the LAPD knew of the string of murders but did not find them urgent because the crimes were classified as NHI - “No Human Involved”
oRR1E TIL Brian O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967 for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA's program plan
0dkoN TIL about the Reversing Falls, on the Saint John River in Canada that reverses direction twice a day at high tide.
QNZOp TIL that "hello" is a relatively new word. The first time we have it in writing is 1826