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TIL Cuba offered to send 1,586 doctors and 26 tons of medicine for relief after Hurricane Katrina. The offer was rejected by the state department.

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69o1X TIL: Despite looking like hedgehogs, Lesser tenrecs (Echinops telfairi) are more related to elephants than to hedgehogs (Erinaceus). Their similarities developed through convergent evolution
4D0b TIL in 1973, when asked about a possible end of the US embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro said “The US will talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope”
kJYJ7 TIL that Michael Tolotos, who lived atop the monastery at the Mount Athos, died without ever knowing what a woman looked like
KYQ8B TIL Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother born in 1991.
dD7AB TIL A group of conspirators intending to assassinate Easter Roman Emperor Nikephoros Phokas entered his bedchamber at night disguised in women's clothing. Initially the got scared because he wasn't in his bed as expected: an ascetic army veteran, Nikephoros liked sleeping on the floor