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TIL the US actually DOES have an extradition treaty with Cuba

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5YmkR TIL The youngest Nike sponsored athlete in the world is 11 year old girl who is surfer and skateboarder Sky Brown
WN1A TIL that in the early 90’s, a younger Bill Nye appeared on the Seattle sketch show “Almost Live” and corrected the host’s pronunciation of gigawatt. (It’s not jigowatt.) The host replied, “Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science Guy?” The nickname stuck.
W8V9 TIL the primary purpose of a Castle’s moat was to prevent attackers from tunnelling under the walls.
b9dOQ TIL a defector from the Russian GRU revealed that if war broke out with the US, Russian agents planned to poison the Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, targeting the residents of Washington, D.C.
r5G0 TIL that wherever smoking bans have been introduced, people actually drink less alcohol as a result.