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TIL Fidel Castro hated cults of personality. In Cuba, there are no statues of him, no streets or buildings named after him, and no official portraits of him.

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nQ8Y TIL Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin were friends. On one occasion, Churchill taught Chaplin how to do brick laying, which was one of Winston’s favourite hobbies.
9YBZr TIL the only avian dinosaurs to survive the asteroid mass extinction event were no larger than a duck and still had teeth.
6LQ TIL that a 1,000 year old “fish trap” made of stones was found off the British coast with Google Maps
Yp0Zx TIL that the past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is 'durst’
GJpJ TIL that the producers of The Jungle Book film originally considered Louis Armstrong for the voice of King Louie, but were worried that choosing a black actor to voice an ape would cause controversy.