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TIL that Cuban ballet dancers are arguably the country’s most esteemed export, they often earn more money than doctors, and they perform locally to the type of cheering crowd that in the USA would be reserved for pop stars

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e0g84 TIL the Chicago Sun-Times bought and and ran a bar to show and uncover corruption.
e0gKn TIL that, when Dustin Hoffman did his make up test for Tootsie he said to the make up artist ""Now make me a beautiful woman." He was told, "That's as good as it gets." Realising how poorly he had treated women who looked just like him in the past, he went home cried.
d8B5Z TIL about "Operation Condor" a clandestine CIA project destined to orchestrate coups all over LatinAmerica between '68-'89, that contributed to the political instability and developmental delay that we still see today.
VMWDG TIL of Roza Shanina, whose teenage brother was killed by Germans in WWII. Seeing how sad her mother was, she joined the Red Army as a 17-year old sniper and killed 59 Nazis as revenge.