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TIL there’s a park with a statue of John Lennon in La Havana where a security guard is paid to sit next to the statue and put his glasses on and off if requested because they always got stolen / vandalized.

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YpK5d TIL there is a LOT of evidence for life after death. The University of Virginia Medical School has a Division of Perceptual Studies that researches this issue (among others). Researchers there gave a talk in 2017 entitled “Is There Life after Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA”
oB0xo TIL that the formula for napalm was finalized in 1942 on Valentine’s Day and the prototype was first tested on Independence Day of the same year.
Adox TIL After a 1942 shipwreck off Newfoundland, locals having never seen blacks before tried to scrub clean those survivors thinking they were covered in oil
8BPG TIL that in 1970 the CIA sent an officer to Uruguay to teach their government torture techniques and methods to suppress the population. He was captured by the rebels and killed. One of the leaders of those rebels is now the president of Uruguay.
DWNP TIL on August 6, 1970, Disneyland was invaded by 300 long-haired people called “Yippies” who caused a ruckus in the park in effort to bring attention to the evils of capitalism and the ongoing war overseas and to flaut Disney’s dress code policies