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TIL that under Operation Dirty Trick, the US would blame Fidel Castro if the 1962 Mercury space flight, which was carrying astronaut John Glenn, crashed.

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OoZx4 TIL that Kevin Conroy (Batman in Batman the Animated Series) volunteered at a kitchen serving first responders after 9/11 and cheered up the diners by doing his Batman voice
o6eW TIL Scotland Yard was originally built upon the location where body parts of an unsolved murder of a woman were found, whose uterus was expertly removed, a particular trait of the depraved killer Jack the Ripper
78eeO TIL: Mapmakers and Europeans used to believe that California was not part of the N. American mainland but rather a large island.
0wvB5 TIL Actor Cary Grant experimented with LSD in the late 1950's an estimated 100 times and stated that it was the solution after many years of "searching for his peace of mind", and that for first time in his life he was "truly, deeply and honestly happy".
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