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TIL that there have been more than 600 assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, making him the number one person to survive the most assassination attempts.

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lRE7 TIL that when a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”
re1 TIL that Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog was filmed in only 6 days!
dDxPQ TIL the Leaning Tower of Pisa was almost destroyed in WW2 but spared because of how beautiful it is
95nB TIL that the CHEKA, during the Red Terror, tortured their victims by boiling their hands until the skin could be pulled off like a glove
LeDV TIL: The inability to pronounce the letter “R” is called Rhotacism, thus making it impossible for the sufferers to pronounce their own affliction.