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gMPVD TIL Fidel Castro survived 638 assassination attempts, sprawling over decades.
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WkRX9 TIL: Benjamin Franklin is credited with one of the first placebo-controlled studies to debunk animal magnetism (1784)
b9O8E TIL in 1946 the Soviet Union built a secret city called City 40 to house workers of a nearby nuclear plant and their families. For decades the fenced city and its 100k inhabitants were officially non existent. Today the city is called Ozersk and it's been exposed to 5x the radiation of Chernobyl.
Meokb TIL that in its early days, football was primarily played in colleges and was extremely violent due to the rugby style nature of the rules. It was so violent that in 1905 alone, there were 19 fatalities that US President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to shut down the sport unless changes were made.