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TIL John F Kennedy ordered 1,200 Cuban cigars hours before he authorized a U.S. trade embargo which subsequently made them illegal

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N7DL1 TIL that the use of mistletoe as a Christmas decoration derives from a Norse myth. Norse god, Balder's only weakness was the mistletoe plant. On learning this Loki, the god of mischief carved arrows from the branches of plant which were used to kill Odin's son.
7B1x TIL that 244 shows have come and gone on Fox since The Simpsons first debuted
BgBBe TIL an airline once put 400 squirrels through a shredder
Ky19 TIL that Apollo lunar rover missions had a “walkback limit” on travel distance so that astronauts would still have time to walk back to the lander if the rover broke down
LMnr TIL There was a large swastika made of larch trees in Germany that went unnoticed for 55 years