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TIL Cuba's former president survived more than 600 assassination attempts.

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6NGm TIL in 1924 there was a steam powered car which could reach over 100 miles per hour, and it achieved about fifteen miles per gallon of kerosene with negligible emissions.
PY9DL TIL a song called "Lemon Incest," a duet about forbidden love written and sung by a father and his 13-year-old daughter, reached #2 on the French charts in 1986.
JG64 TIL Thai fisherman have figured out a way to adapt their eyes to see clearly underwater without the aid of goggles or swim masks.
9yxG TIL a JFK assassination witness claimed to see an suspicious unidentified man standing in the window of the school book depository, who later fled the scene. His testimony was ignored, he was intimidated several times, and there were several attempts on his life.
X8DE TIL that in Star Wars legends, Jar Jar Binks was given a father, named George R Binks, who was so ashamed of his son that he attempted suicide. In order to talk him down, his wife told him to think of his son. He then pulled the trigger