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TIL about the Mariel boatlift, which saw around 125000 people leave Cuba, among them political dissenters, homosexuals and prison inmates

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5Y1wR TIL of German academic fencing duels fought with sharp swords standing against each other at arm's length, with evading a hit against the rules, duels paused only for stitching together the participants faces when hit.
YYDB TIL Chris Scarver, the man who killed Jeffrey Dahmer in prison, believed Dahmer was unrepentant for his crimes and claimed Dahmer would taunt fellow inmates by shaping his prison food into severed limbs, drizzling packets of ketchup on them to simulate blood.
5VwPD TIL that Robert Hooke has been called “England’s Leonardo.” He discovered microorganisms and a law of elasticity; observed the rotation of planets; revolutionized city planning; and presaged theories of optics, gravity, and evolution.
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