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TIL Johnny Weissmuller, famous for his role as Tarzan, was playing golf in Cuba during the Revolution when he was surrounded by a group of rebels. He immediately gave his trademark Tarzan yell. The soldiers recognized it and were so delighted to meet… Tarzan that they escorted him to a safe area.

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p8j7N TIL Cuba had dozens of double agents within the CIA for decades. This was not discovered until a Cuban spy defected to the US in 1987 and started naming names.
AWra TIL Arlo Guthrie’s most famous song, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, is exactly the length of the suspicious gap in Nixon’s Watergate tapes.
klp7 TIL: The Enterprise’s captain was originally James R. Kirk, and it was changed to “T” for “Tiberius” later in the series
VM750 TIL that since psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) is a known molecule, it cannot be patented. BUT the way it’s made and used can be. Already organizations and companies are applying for and getting patents for their synthesis process.
VKBG TIL Feminist actually help change the definition of rape to include men being victims of rape.