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TIL that Fidel Castro survived 638 CIA assassination attempts

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WjlY TIL: In 1978 Soviet Geologists found a family of six surviving in the middle of Siberia who hadn’t seen another human since 1936.
D1n4e TIL that nipple rings were a fad in the 1890’s among Victorian women.
kJJY4 TIL conflicting accounts on the sources regarding the date of when the Mona Lisa was commissioned and executed, has led some to theorise that the painting currently at the Louvre is not the original painting commissioned my Mona Lisa's husband, but only a copy, while the original remained unfinished
RDr9 TIL a russian fighterpilot crash landed in Norway in 1944 after having his leg blown off during an air battle. He bled to death. They found him three years later sitting in his plane with a cigarette in his mouth.
DQxNg TIL In 1964, the iconic worldwide hit "Downtown" was being written in a bathroom while 40 musicians (including a 20-year-old Jimmy Page) were waiting in the studio with Petula Clark to record it. The needed only the second of three takes to finalize it..