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TIL: America spends $34mil a year of taxpayer money to broadcast TV and radio to Cuba from Miami, FL. These broadcasts reach less than 1% of Cuba’s 11million residents. Broadcasted signals are jammed regularly by the Cuban government.

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m1wVo TIL 69% of panel members for the creation of the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version 5), have ties to pharmaceutical industries.
l7OM7 TIL only 4 percent of mobile users consume more than 50 gigabytes of cellular data a month
QkYe TIL Singer/Songwriter Neil Young accidentally gave a group of children a case of poison oak at his annual birthday celebration by having the children roast marshmallows on the poisonous tree’s branches (which he had gathered himself).
N7OAE Today I learned that Grover Cleveland became the first sitting president to get married. He married a woman 27 years younger than him, Frances Folsom, whom he had literally known since her birth. After Folsom's father died when she was 11, Cleveland became her legal guardian.
okwo TIL machine guns mounted on early propeller aircraft had to be timed to fire bullets through the spinning blades without hitting them