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TIL that before Hugh Beaumont, the first person to play Ward Cleaver was Max Showalter (billed as Casey Adams) in the original pilot for what became "Leave it to Beaver"

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lolB1 TIL that Tibetans living at >4200m altitude have more than double the blood flow compared to people living at sea level, as a result of the low pressure at these altitudes.
pLQp TIL a NZ citizen was imprisoned inside one of the world’s harshest prisons in Myanmar for over a year because he posted an image of Buddha with headphones on his Facebook page.
p8Bk4 TIL that at the onset of the Korean War, the US Army was so unprepared it had to salvage tanks from WWII battlefields and even from display pedestals in Fort Knox to equip its forces.
kOVm5 TIL many cultures wish health or a blessing after sneezing because it was a first sign of the Plague
95dB TIL there have been an estimated 638 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro by the United States, including poisoned cigars, infected scuba equipment, a pen rigged with a hypodermic needle containing poison, etc. He stated “if surviving assassination attempts was an Olympic event, I’d win gold”