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TIL John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy.

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gMExD TIL that, during their years in the White House, President Herbert Hoover & his wife, First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, were known to communicate with each other in Mandarin Chinese at times when they wished to foil eavesdroppers & keep their conversations private.
oBxZL TIL that there are so many water-filled caves under Florida that divers can swim between sinkhole-created lakes, under highways, businesses, schools, and houses.
9YGj6 TIL about “ultraconserved” words, which are 23 words that have been mostly unchanged over 15,000 years and are currently in use in many languages today
MeyrK TIL that in 1985 France bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship called the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand using secret agents under the codename "Opération Satanique"
5VDAP TIL psychiatrists often overlook a patient’s caffeine intake habits during evaluations, despite its overuse being linked to worsening anxiety, disrupting sleep, and mimicking many common symptoms of psychosis.