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TIL Kennedy bought 1,200 Cuban cigars hours before he ordered the trade embargo.

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57AR TIL that cat owners are 40% less likely to have a heart attack than other people.
aw9v0 TIL Children in Ireland leave a pint of Guinness out for Santa Claus instead of milk.
R7gLj TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it..
GG0g TIL NVIDIA digitally rendered the moon landing, which revealed why Buzz Aldrin seemed too brightly illuminated on the moon landing picture: he was illuminated by light reflected from the Moon’s surface and Armstrong’s spacesuit
W71ML TIL 75% of food consumed worldwide is made by only 6 companies