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TIL despite being portrayed as young and healthy, John Kennedy was hospitalized dozens of times and on three occasions given his last rites.

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Kbd6 TIL The Israeli embassy said it’s concerned about popular American TV show that depict the Jewish lobby’s influence in America in a critical manner. ‘Could lead to conspiracy theories about the Israeli and Jewish control of American politics’
Rk4l TIL The first American in space, Alan Shepard, said “Don’t fuck up, Shepard” before launch. This is now known among aviators as Shepard’s prayer
N7eoN TIL that The word "PEZ" comes from the German word for peppermint—PfeffErminZ
R7jv8 TIL As a defensive measure Israel installed an underwater pipe system to pump flammable crude oil into the Suez Canal, thereby creating a sheet of flame. On the eve of the Yom Kippur War, teams of Egyptian frogmen blocked the underwater openings with concrete before launching their attack
7rw4O TIL Jews were blamed for the Black Death plague which killed half of Europe