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TIL in Cuba, picking up hitchhikers is mandatory for government vehicles, if passenger space is available.

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OLnL TIL St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in 1962 by comedian Danny Thomas. He promised St. Jude that if he made him successful, he would one day build him a shrine. The hospital has since become a leader in the study and treatment of children’s cancer. St. Jude got his shrine.
gRrL TIL that Bin Laden’s Family was evacuated by the FBI shortly after 9/11 when they received a message from the Saudi ruler saying there were “bin Laden children all over America…Take measures to protect the innocents”
epNrn Til Curtis Yarvin, friend of many oligarchs, is the architect of the idea of taking over the US by self coup/butterfly revolution
dvGr TIL that two babies were switched at birth, one family was rich and the other poor, the rich couple’s baby became a truck driver and the poor couple’s baby became a CEO of a company
N790b TIL about the Birnam Oak, thought to be the last remaining tree of the Birnam Wood referenced in Shakespeare’s Macbeth