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TIL In the 50’s, the CIA tried to assassinate Fidel Castro by slipping an exploding cigar into his private supply

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x61o1 TIL that famous Egyptologist Howard Carter's gravestone has a quote from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, an artifact that he discovered. It reads "May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness."
5B68 TIL after Kanye West’s mother had died of heart disease while suffering “multiple post-operative factors” after plastic surgery, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the “Donda West Law,” making it mandatory for patients to provide medical clearance for elective cosmetic surgery.
l6NN TIL That after using his body as a shield against a grenade and absoring 43 pieces of fragmentation, along with being shot 7 times by 7.62x39mm rounds, Sgt Bradley Kasal refused to quit fighting and his credited with saving the lives of several other Marines along with his own
LB0p TIL th at US police have killed more people in January 2015 than UK police have killed in the last century
lxw1 Today I learned that craniopagus conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana can see through each other’s eyes.