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TIL directly after JFK was assassinated, his wife Jackie refused to remove her blood-stained clothes or have the blood washed from her face and hands. She continued like this aboard Air Force 1 during LBJ’s oath-of-office, telling Lady Bird Johnson, “I want them to see what they have done…”

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QJbwL TIL the Eskimo logo on Alaskan Airlines planes is Chester Seveck, a reindeer herder who for years greeted tourists getting off the plane at Kotzebue, Alaska.
lPjG TIL That the full “Ignorance is bliss” quote by Thomas Gray is “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise”
0KyN TIL of Forest Fenn, an 85 year old millionaire who buried 2 million dollars worth of treasure and wrote a book about it. The treasure ranges from gold nuggets the size of chicken eggs, to sculptures dating back to the Ming Dynasty. He’s said that hunters have come within 250 feet of the treasure.
4kadR TIL that Lise Meittner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, never won the Nobel Prize. She was nominated 48 times in both Physics and Chemistry.
O7YL TIL that the “Banana Equivalent Dose” uses the banana as a basic unit of radiation when calculating radiation exposure levels, and is the original “banana for scale”