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TIL of Fidel Castro’s dairy cow, Ubre Blanca, who was specially bred to break the American record in milk production

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69888 TIL Vice President Thomas R. Marshall offered Calvin Coolidge his "sincere condolences" upon hearing that Coolidge was elected Vice President
4XpGX TIL About Leslie 'Bull' Alan who carried twelve men to safety from Mount Tambu described as 'a gigantic man striding up Mount Tambu like he was on a Sunday jaunt'
W7RDY TIL Renowned architect Minoru Yamasaki designed the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project in St. Louis and he envisioned a community lifestyle similar to sidewalks in a high-rise setting, where children and adults could gather safely. However, these community spaces were used by gangs to harass residents
wLay1 TIL that chicken nuggets were invented by a poultry and food science professor at Cornell University in the ‘60s.
nVgb TIL, in 1962, an intruder climbing the fence at a Minnesota air base set off the “sabotage alarm” in all bases in the area. In one base, due to wrong wiring, the Klaxon was sounded ordering nuclear-armed aircraft to take off, and the pilots believed WW3 has started. The original intruder was a bear.