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TIL That supermodels Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell met Cuban president Fidel Castro in 1998, after Moss sent him a letter

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x6Ex1 TIL that the final Jackson 5 tour was such a financial disaster for the concert promoter that he was forced to sell the New England Patriots to cover the costs
0wXQv TIL in 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia decided to close its entire public school system rather than integrate black children into their schools. It then created all-white private schools funded by state tuition grants and county tax credits. Many black children had no education for 5 years.
jNBoE TIL that on December 16, 1965, NASA received a prank transmission from two astronauts: "We have an object, probably in polar orbit... I see a command Module and and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit." They then started playing, "Jingle Bells".
ZpM04 TIL about Mark Redwine, a father who murdered his son Dylan after the 13 year old found compromising photos of Mark wearing lingerie and eating feces off a diaper
7nb7 TIL that in medieval times, homosexuals and adulterous women were punished by a device that stretched their vagina or anus until they die.