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TIL: There have been 4x more people who have been to the moon than have been in the bottom of Marianas Trench

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KOAXa TIL John F Kennedy once had a 2 year long affair with beauty queen and actress Inga Arvad, even coming very close to marrying her. The relationship ended when Joe Kennedy discovered Ms Arvad had another man in her life- the one and only Adolf Hitler- and was under FBI surveillance as a result.
9vNG TIL there’s a pill that decreases the risk of contracting HIV by 99%
R5WR6 TIL the largest landowner in the world is King Charles, who owns 6.6billion acres (roughly 1/6 of the entire world land area), which is more then the next 24 largest landowners combined.
jN5Nv TIL that the majority of the alcohol industry's sales come from so-called problem drinkers—people whose drinking is destroying or risking their health.
788nx TIL that Ford's Theatre refuses to perform the play which Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated