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TIL chickenpox is a form of herpes

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grZZD TIL that among the many CIA plots to assassinate, overthrow, or humiliate Fidel Castro, one plan called for poisoning him so that his beard would fall out.
VMQnD TIL about Moe Berg, the “strangest man to ever play baseball,” who spoke several languages and found a post-baseball career as a US spy during World War II and was ordered to kill Werner Heisenberg if the Nazis came close to building a nuclear bomb.
ZpmOR TIL that it took over 20 tons of tallow, soap and train oil to grease the slipway when Titanic was launched
v1XED TIL that killer whales, or orca whales have a highly developed ‘limbic system’, which suggests that they feel a stronger level of empathy and social cohesion towards their peers than any other mammal, including human beings and other cetaceans.
NRQP TIL the Concorde plane used in the disaster film Concorde ‘79, was the same Concorde that would crash in France and kill 113 people 21 years later.