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TIL Kennedy took "sole responsibility" for the Bay of Pigs Invasion and it's subsequent failure.

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GARpj TIL that Quasimodo in the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame of Paris" by Victor Hugo got his name from the Latin liturgical name for the Sunday after Easter, the day he was found.
R70Y8 TIL of our "2nd brain" hidden in the walls of the digestive system. “The enteric nervous system doesn’t seem capable of thought as we know it, but it communicates back and forth with our big brain—with profound results.” according to Jay Pasricha, M.D., of Johns Hopkins.
QJRAL TIL Metallica’s debut album, Kill Em’ All, was originally supposed to be named “Metal Up Your Ass”
YpBGx TIL that according to research, our love for shiny things comes from an evolutionary instinct to seek out water
D1D7D TIL that the first documented use of toilet paper is from the 6th century iN China. By early 14th century, they were manufacturing toilet paper at the rate of 10 million packages (ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 sheets) annually. It wasn't until 1857, toilet paper was commercially available in the US.