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TIL the US actually DOES have an extradition treaty with Cuba

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kJld1 TIL that study that says men divorce their sick wives was retracted in 2015 for a major error that severely skewed its results ("no response" was classified as "getting divorced" for men). Men do not actually divorce their sick wives at a higher rate than women divorce sick husbands.
oRONW TIL In January 2001, Iraq offered to donate $91 million to impoverished Americans on humanitarian grounds. It's unknown if America accepted the donation.
wGXY TIL young, single, childless women earn, on average, 8% more than their male counterparts in 147 of 150 major cities in the U.S.
64Nm TIL that Albert Einstein was an avid supporter of civil rights and called racism “a disease of white people.”
4kn5o TIL that when Gallup conducted a survey in 1944 asking Americans "What do you think we should do with Japan after the war?" 13% favored "Killing off" all the Japanese, 33% thought it should be split up or destroyed while the rest favored either supervision or rehabilitation.