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TIL the US actually DOES have an extradition treaty with Cuba

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78RXb TIL some flags are designed with different images on the front and back, sometimes due to heraldic, manufacturing and legal constraints
gMyaD TIL about Arlington House, which was owned by Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee, the step-great-granddaughter of George Washington. It was seized and later returned by the government. Lee’s son then sold it to the government. Its grounds are now the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
6XJm TIL the tomb of China’s first emperor has never been opened due to a river of poisonous mercury that flows inside it.
N7Mb TIL that a star called R136a1 is the most massive (265 solar masses) and most luminous (8,700,000 times the luminosity of the Sun) star known.
GA46Q TIL that the longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada claimed to have communicated with Leonardo da Vinci, Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, his grandfather, and several of his dead dogs, as well as the spirit of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.