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TIL that Cuba offered to send 1600 medics after Katrina, but the United States rebuffed them - while at the same time welcoming international help

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OGey1 TIL that although the term "First Lady" is commonly attributed to 12th President Zachary Taylor, the term was actually first used in an 1838 newspaper article about Martha Washington.
9YkZr TIL there is a recently discovered species of Gecko that, instead of its tail coming off during an attack, its skin (scales) come off. Then it looks like raw chicken
Wao TIL that Fox Studio passed on the ‘Watchmen’ movie because they thought the script was “one of the most unintelligible pieces of shit they had read in years”
0XeA TIL that with the aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the CIA funded the Dalai Lama $1.7 million a year in the 1960s
grdKX TIL that the reason that many amusement parks don't allow single riders on their Ferris Wheels is not due to the weight of gondola being balanced incorrectly, but rather to curb the risk of suicide jumpers.