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TIL ‘Modern’ victim activated Land Mines first saw widespread use by Confederate soldiers in the American Civil War

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8V5b TIL Fidel Castro claimed he survived 634 assassination attempts by the CIA
a7Qb TIL that Lightning McQueen was not named after racing legend Steve McQueen, but rather the former Pixar animator Glenn McQueen who died of skin cancer in 2002.
epmWJ TIL that Killer Cult leader Charles Manson was a folk musician earlier in his life, and recorded songs.
w1x1 TIL - Meerkat sentries will climb just about anything to get a better view of their surroundings…including cameramen.
loK4V TIL in one 13th-century version of the King Arthur myth, Merlin is the spawn of a demon and a mortal woman and was intended by Satan to be the Antichrist, but was baptized by a priest shortly after birth which nullified Satan's plan, and now uses his demonic powers of magic and prophecy for good.