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TIL that Fidel Castro had a serious obsession with anything dairy. He once tried to breed a super cow to no avail, brought the French Ambassador just to debate about cheese and the obsession was big enough for it to be the target for one of the many plots made by the CIA to kill him.

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x6L07 TIL about “jouhatsu”, the people who pay companies specialized in making people disappear
6EAEw TIL humans domesticated a mold thousands of years ago (Aspergillus oryzae.) It produces soy sauce, miso, sake, amazake, among other savory things.
9YkOX TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker
Rvg7 TIL in 1983 a Russian radar detected the launch of Minuteman missiles by the U.S. The radar operator correctly identified the detection as a false alarm and is credited with averting a likely counterstrike by the Russians which would have started a nuclear war.
PY7gO TIL I learned that the first vibrator was invented in the late 1860's by Dr. George Taylor. It was used to cure symptoms of depression and anxiety, symptoms for a female condition that was commonly referred to at the time as "hysteria."