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TIL The United States government planned on blowing up airliners and blaming it on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation

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jNVgE TIL: The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered the planet Pluto, were sent to outer space on the New Horizons spacecraft making his the first human remains to leave our solar system.
4PXb TIL Winston Churchill once defined tact as “the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such as way that they look forward to the trip.”
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