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OoAZ7 TIL Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina, is still alive and still lives in Texas, the very state where her then husband killed President Kennedy.
VM1AQ TIL Carl Sagan wrote a peer-reviewed paper while at Stanford with a NASA grant outlining it is probable aliens have visited the earth and feasible they have impacted our civilizations.
M88b TIL that Isaac Asimov contracted HIV from a blood transfusion received during his bypass operation in 1983. His physicians advised him against going public, warning that the anti-AIDS prejudice would likely extend to his family members. He died from HIV complications in 1992.
x6bL0 TIL Leon Trotsky was killed with an ice axe, an axe used for climbing icy mountains, not an axe made out of ice
YxpG TIL Prince liked Dave Chappelle’s impression of him so much that he put Chapelle, dressed as Prince, on the cover of his newest single, “Breakfast Can Wait.”