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TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a CIA operative noticed soccer fields on a Cuban Military Base. “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer”

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v1WD7 TIL the turning point that pushed Boston to dig under its streets and open America’s first subway on September 1, 1897, was Frank Sprague’s invention, the Dynamo Electric Machine.
6Ljw TIL A shopkeeper in New Delhi teaches around 200 slum kids under a metro bridge for free. The school has no desks, chairs or blackboard just makeshift arrangements. Aptly named “Free School: Under the Bridge”
wLg4M TIL about substitute teachers’ week. Every year in Alberta, Canada the Alberta Teachers’ Association dedicates a week to recognizing the work of substitute teachers.
R9N8 TIL that thousands of cargo containers go missing each year. One contained thousands of edible Doritos packets, and another containing a 8 foot tall Lego man.
pXXQ TIL in 1900 Isaac Cline violated weather service policy and unilaterally issued a hurricane warning to warn the citizens of Galveston, TX that a major storm was headed their way.