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TIL that Cuba has two types of currency - one for Cubans to buy basics and the other for tourists to buy what are considered luxuries

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x6AxD TIL about Leonard Sly. Born poor in a small town outside of Portsmouth Ohio. He stole chickens to keep from starving. As a youth, a judge ordered him to leave the county. He drifted and ended up in California as a movie stuntman.
jxAR TIL airlines refuse to adopt backwards facing seats despite proven safety advantages
Z8MYY TIL The city of Chattanooga, TN built a publicly funded ISP with speeds of 1000mbps for $70/mo.
aw4XN TIL that Steve Irwin paid for one of his security guards to go and train MMA in the USA, that security guard, Kyle Noke, would go on to fight in the UFC and credits Irwin as a major reason why he achieved his dreams.
GOdj TIL that there’s a type of neutron star called a magnetar which has a magnetic field that’s so powerful that being within 1,000 miles of one would warp all the atoms in your body and from a distance of 100,000 miles away it would be able to wipe out the data of every credit card on the planet.