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TIL While living in the white house, JFK had parrots, hamsters, cats, horses, a rabbit named 'Zsa Zsa', and 5 dogs.
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TIL in 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned businesses in Cuba. The US sent CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow him, but failed due to missed military strikes. Castro captured the exiles, but ultimately freed them in exchange for medical supplies and baby food worth $53M.
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TIL in a Dallas speech that was never delivered due to his assassination, JFK noted that "for the first time in history average factory earnings have exceeded $100 a week." In 2020 dollars, that's over $830.