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TIL that the CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was called “Operation Castration”

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9YaOr TIL that the final Confederate surrender of the US Civil War took place on the River Mersey, in Liverpool, England, when a Confederate warship (CSS Shenandoah) learned of the North’s victory while abroad.
oXM8 TIL The “Harlem Hellfighters” were the first African American regiment in WWI who were assigned to the French forces. None were captured, never lost a trench, or a foot of ground to the enemy. They returned to the U.S. as one of the most successful regiments of World War I
01mj TIL Godzilla spends around 8 minutes in the movie created for him in 2014
MewlB TIL the opposite of an oxymoron is called a tautology
xVkO0 TIL that time seems to speed up as we get older because each year we live is a smaller percentage of the total amount of time we’ve been alive. It’s called proportional theory.