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TIL Six weeks before JFK was murdered in Dallas, his Secret Service driver Tom Shipman died of a sudden heart attack in Camp David. This made room for William Greer. Greer didn’t accelerate the limousine after the first shot, instead he slowed the car down.

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lokdB TIL Queen Victoria was buried in a white dress and her wedding veil, alongside many mementos. Her late husband's dressing gown and a plaster cast of his hand was placed beside her, and a lock of her favourite servant John Brown's hair along with his photo was placed in her left hand.
VBkP0 TIL Charles “Black Bart” Boles was an American outlaw who committed 28 successful stage coach robberies entirely on foot between 1875 and 1883, as he was afraid of horses. He also reportedly never once fired a weapon during his years as an outlaw.
xV1r0 TIL that ninjas actually wore blue. Black stands out in moonlight, and blue hides just as well in the dark.
W7xy8 TIL Independence Day scenes were filmed in Rachel, Nevada in front of the Little A’Le’Inn in 1996. This led to a movement to officially name the stretch of highway between Alamo and Tonopah the “Extraterrestrial Highway,” giving Rachel’s title as the UFO Capital of the World
mxrOR TIL that in the USSR, according to Soviet statistics, the 3% of cultivated land in private hands "produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs"