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TIL in 1973, when asked about a possible end of the US embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro said “The US will talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope”

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BgX5L TIL that movement of the tides causes a loss of energy in the Earth-Moon system. In the last 620 million years the period of rotation of the Earth (length of a day) has increased from 21.9 hours to 24 hours; in this period the Earth-Moon system has lost 17% of its rotational energy.
j6e8v TIL the game "Exploding Snap" was originally mistranslated as "Exploding Snape" in the German version of Harry Potter, leaving fans to wonder if Harry and his friends were conjuring tiny Snapes they could blow-up for fun
vP17x TIL the suffragette bombing and arson campaign of 1912-1914 caused at least five deaths
b6YMZ TIL that in 1991, Mark Fugate shot and killed his ex wife in her home in front of their 15 year old son. That son was beaten to death by his friends in the same house a year after his father's conviction
j6BYv TIL A bullet struck the Cleveland Indians team bus in 2004. It hit pitcher Kyle Denney in the calf, but his injury was mitigated by the boots he was wearing as part of his cheerleader outfit for a rookie hazing ritual.