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TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."

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vB6r TIL Evelyn McHale is referred to as the “Most Beautiful Suicide”. On April 30, 1947 she jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State building and fell 86 floors onto the United Nations Assembly Cadillac. The picture was taken by a photography student 4 minutes after the crash.
4k4oX TIL Yoko Ono, the controversial former wife of the Beatles' John Lennon, is one of the most successful dance club artists on Billboard, with 13 #1 dance club hits and ranking as the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard
wLDXP TIL the judge from the Rick and Morty courtroom sketch was publicly admonished for failing to discharge his duties impartially, competently, and diligently
W71GB TIL when Buddy Holly’s wife suffered a miscarriage after seeing the first reports of his death on television, news agencies implemented a policy against announcing victims' names until after families are informed.
5VVlD TIL that Mongolia built a 130 foot statue of Genghis Khan in 2008. 782 years after his death in 1226 A.D.