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TIL that Fidel Castro survived 638 CIA assassination attempts

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e5v5 TIL a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother had sent a birthday cake to school along with a knife to cut it. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, and then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon.
GD14 TIL the guy who created the backstreet boys and Nsync is serving 25 years in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme
OGP67 TIL men and women share the same key symptoms during heart attacks. It is actually a myth that they are substantially different.
xVeX5 TIL there is donkey power, which is one third of a horsepower.
9YJdp TIL British prime minister Harold Wilson was so unliked by senior members of the army and MI5 that there allegedly were discussions about a military coup against the government in 1974