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TIL The United States Select House Committee on Assassinations’ last report concluded that JFK’s assassination was a result of a conspiracy.

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16bGd TIL that there was an American organization called American Committee for the Defense of British Homes where Americans donated their guns for British homeowners during WWII.
j6GNa TIL that the cute geography cone snail kills fish and then eats them by first immobilizing them with a cloud of insulin, sending them into hypoglycemic shock, and then injecting them with venom to kill them.
Bmkx TIL That when Jim Carrey starred as the Grinch, it took 9 hours to to apply all the makeup required for the part, which drove Jim to the point of quitting the movie and he had to talk to the CIA about resisting torture.
LoXv TIL The South Pole experiences a 6-month period of darkness, during which scientists at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station have a tradition of watching The Thing, a movie about a humanoid alien who attacks an Arctic research outpost.
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