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TIL Fidel Castro was imprisoned for a year in 1953 due to a failed coup before becoming Prime Minister of Cuba in 1959

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d7JE TIL that velociraptors were really only the size of an average dog and had feathers. The Jurassic Park movies took the name and applied it to another dinosaur from the raptor family.
QmO6 TIL Alcatraz was the only federal prison at the time to offer hot-water showers for its inmates because the prison staff felt the inmates would find the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay almost impossible to withstand during an escape attempt.
N7E1P TIL the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit has pastoral responsibility over the Cayman Islands
ZnRa TIL that Michael Caine started acting because the drama classes were full of pretty girls and he wanted to get laid
ANpMd Til: The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years