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TIL A video game called JFK:Reloaded was released in 2004, where you get to play as Oswald and score points for killing Kennedy the same way it happened historically.

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najd TIL A study by Harvard University reports that men with waist sizes of 43 inches or more are 50 percent more likely to suffer from prostate enlargement than men of normal weight.
0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.
a8Bl0 TIL A plane in a holding pattern due to a severe weather ran out of fuel and crashed because of the crew's failure to be assertive with air traffic control
LkG4P TIL that the name Big Ben properly refers only to the bell inside the clock tower, and not the tower itself nor the clock.
9wZor TIL that the 90's teen rom-com "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."