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TIL JFK commanded a 19 Year old intern to perform oral sex on a white house aide.

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6EbJ TIL a human cyclops was born in India and lived for 24 hours.
Qgye TIL Jason from the Friday the 13th is unmasked in nearly every film and has had a different looking face each time
Wn9N TIL there’s a country club on the US-Canada border that allows people to cross into Canada without going through customs. Founded in 1929, it allowed Americans to bypass Prohibition
6pJW TIL the “Tree That Owns Itself” is a white oak tree in Athens, GA, that is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it. According to newspapers, a deed written by Colonel William Jackson was written to the tree, giving ownership of the land to itself in the 1800s.
woo86 TIL that Gene Roddenberry's original script for the first "Star Trek" movie contained a scene in which James T. Kirk has a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ. Certain elements of this script did eventually show up in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"—but most did not.