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TIL Fidel Castro set up his own recreation of the Kennedy assassination using Cuban military snipers and concluded Oswald couldn’t have acted alone.

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X0KpE TIL that in 1980 a Texaco oil rig on Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur drilled into a salt mine, which created a giant whirlpool and a 164-ft waterfall that drained the lake, reversed the flow of a canal that lead to the ocean, but everyone in the mine was able to escape.
jNbWp TIL that before roads were a thing, roadrunners were called Chaparral Cocks
6N9m TIL an 11 year old girl was killed during therapy, crushed to death in an attempt to re-stimulate birth
WkMLX TIL that the first ever science fiction novel, 'A True Story' was written in the second century AD. The novel includes travel to the outer space, flying to the Moon, alien lifeforms, interplanetary warfare and continents across the ocean.
OGv9e TIL that in 1987 Yoshikazu Kurosawa first described the idea of modified CAR-T-cells that could target specific cancer cells.