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TIL There were more than 600 assassination attempts against Fidel Castro

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XE9Dr TIL that Carfentanyl (think "normal" Fentanyl but on crack) is so potent that it can be used as a chemical weapon. It was most likely used during the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis as an aerosol mist to subdue the Chechen hostage takers.
XvNr TIL the number people are most likely to state when asked to give a random number between 0 and 100 is 37.
Lajp TIL That in Senior Centre in Düsseldorf they set up a Fake bus stop as a mean to keeps Alzheimer’s patients from wandering off. the idea was so successful that it has been adopted by several other homes across Germany
X0gGP TIL the infamous coast-to-coast Cannonball Run challenge is named after Cannonball, the locomotive driven by Casey Jones when he fatally tried to make up a 75 minute delay and set a speed record from Memphis TN to Canton MS
MQYm TIL cats domesticated themselves.