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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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GA9D5 TIL That 38% of world wide unprovoked shark attacks occur in Florida.
7rxlZ TIL that many Union veterans saw it as insulting that Confederate monuments were being built to commemorate the very traitors they fought against. They saw it as an affront to their military service and an affront to their dead colleagues who died fighting the Confederacy.
wLWXJ TIL about the Great Hanging at Gainesville, a confederate war crime where 41 suspected unionists were executed in October of 1862
p8M9p TIL that the Chicagoland Tylenol murders still remain unsolved and no one was ever charged. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules; leading to industry-wide tamper-proof seals and phasing out of capsules.
YpJ6G TIL that tonic water contains Quinine, a medication originlly used to treat malaria and babesiosis, which also glows under a UV light.