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TIL that in 1958, Larry King got into a car accident with JFK. JFK reportedly yelled “How could you? Early Sunday morning, no traffic, I’m parked—how could you run into me?” When King simply offered to exchange information, the Senator agreed he’d forget about it if King promised to vote for him.

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wLAj6 TIL about Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish sailor who was shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula in 1511 and taken as a slave by a Mayan lord. He earned his freedom, became a respected Mayan warrior, and died fighting Spanish colonization of indigenous lands.
8exPX TIL that Jackie Kennedy became the First First Lady and first American woman to be awarded the French Legion of Honor, the highest civilian award by the French Government for her work as a cultural ambassador of the United States and contributions to U.S foreign relations.
xVnbw TIL of a Jain festival “Kshamavani” (Forgiveness Day) wherein the followers ask for forgiveness, of all your dear ones, everyone whom they may have wronged, knowingly or unknowingly.
e0JGk TIL of Berengaria of Navarre, the only Queen of England to have never set foot in the country. She was married to Richard the Lionheart for 8 years
QJ0yM TIL it was this day in 1587, Filipinos became the first Asians to have landed in what is now called California in USA.