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TIL it wasn’t until after Kennedy was assassinated that it was codified the Vice President would become President upon the death of the President. Beforehand it was just by long standing precedent.

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gr0VX TIL: In the 1920s there was a mob hitman called Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri who was noted to have soft womanly hands, used his knives to clean his fingernails, and slept with them. He killed dozens of rival gangsters before disappearing in 1928 after Al Capone killed his boss.
woZV1 TIL: Just like you can cross a donkey and mare to create a mule, and you can cross a lion and a tiger to great a liger, it's possible for a whale and a dolphin to breed and produce a wholphin.
mvQY TIL that Abraham Lincoln has no confirmed living descendants. His last, a great-grandson, died in 1985.
NX7YP TIL Jonathan Larson, creator of the Broadway Musical 'Rent', died suddenly and penniless the night before its first Off-Broadway performance. Rent made it to Broadway for a 12-year run and won Best Musical and many other awards, all of which Larson missed.
kO1le TIL the first civil nuclear accident happened in Canada in 1952 when a reactor core was damaged. Contaminated light-water leaked out of the reactor and led to a major response effort. Future U.S. president Jimmy Carter, then a Navy Lieutenant, was part of the cleanup crew