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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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9YRQM TIL that Philadelphia is Greek for "brotherly love," derived from the Ancient Greek terms φίλος phílos (beloved, dear) and ἀδελφός adelphós (brother, brotherly)
kORn5 TIL that as of 2020, 4.5 billion people are connected to and actively use the Internet.
0dPbA TIL: The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor was a planned exoskeleton suit inspired by the MJOLNIR armor from the Halo series for Canadian soldiers featured on the Discovery Channel. Features included wrist sheaths and in suit morphine injections. The inventor died in a car crash before he finished it.
xVlZ0 TIL that commercial DNA testing companies such as Ancestry.com and 23AndMe can send your dna profile to the police, keep it for up to ten years or can even share them to others.
eo74 TIL that In New Zealand, BMW posted a newspaper advertisement that said bring in your old car and they’ll swap it for a brand new one. No one came as everyone thought this as an April fool prank but, it turns out the offer was real and a lady swapped an old Nissan Avenir for a brand new BMW.