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TIL: John F. Kennedy’s sister, Rosemary, was lobotomized at the age of 23. Her Father authorized it and didn’t tell the family until after. The truth only came out after John was elected President.

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8avWb TIL of "The 2904 Run" which is a NY to LA car race inspired by the Cannonball Run. The objective is to drive the 2904 miles from New York to California on a budget of $2,904 and that includes the car, fuel, toll, tickets, food, etc... The current record is 32 hours and 5 minutes
1Djd TIL scientists believed that during the Inflationary Epoch, roughly 10^-36 seconds after the Big Bang, the universe expanded by a factor of at least 10^26 — 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, becoming the size of a grapefruit.
b9w6a TIL about Mary Ann Brown Patten, who took command of a merchant vessel in 1856 when the captain, her husband, became ill and the first mate was found to be sabotaging the voyage to win a bet he'd placed on a competitor. She defeated a mutiny attempt and brought the ship safely back to port.
rbNw TIL Connie Sawyer, the actress who played the old woman who Jim Carrey told, “Don’t you go dying on me!” in Dumb And Dumber, is still alive. She is currently 103 years old.
ve5R TIL Yu Pengnian gave up his entire $1B+ fortune to charity. When some said it was “unnatural” for him to leave none for his family, he replied, “If my children are competent, they don’t need my money. If they’re not, leaving them a lot of money is only doing them harm.”