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TIL that The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for Guantanamo, but Cuba doesn’t cash the checks

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awOkM TIL that evidence shows that a portion of a mountain in Pennsylvania was once connected to the same mountain in Morocco
j6N1a TIL of the Battle of May Island, a series of accidental collisions during WWI among Royal Navy vessels that resulted in 2 destroyed submarines, 3 damaged subs, 1 damaged cruiser, and 105 total deaths. No enemy forces were present.
nWEmW TIL that people with aphantasia cannot visualize or picture memories
kJnj4 TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 playing blackjack, and kept the company afloat.
l8m7 TIL that Jacob Vouza, a native of Guadalcanal and Allied scout, after being tortured and bayoneted multiple times, freed himself by chewing through his ropes and warned the Marines of an impending Japanese attack.