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TIL: The CIA unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro over 634 times, including using an exploding cigar

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OoBkY TIL James Harrison has donated blood every week for the last 60 years. His blood contains a rare antibody that prevents pregnant women from developing Rhesus Disease. With his donations, he has saved over 2 million lives.
RMA6 TIL The Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company ever in world history. With a value of 78 million Dutch Guilders, adjusted to 2012 dollars it was worth $7.4 trillion.
rRnlo TIL that when Def Leppard recorded Pour Some Sugar On Me their drummer Rick Allen only had one arm. He had lost it in a car crash in 1984. The song was released on their Hysteria-album in 1987.
78pBP TIL 25 supercars that were seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator were sold for a combined $27M at auction in Switzerland in 2019
5YBpr TIL European colonization of Americas killed so many it cooled Earth’s climate