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

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Noe6 TIL of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till’s mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.
Z8yW4 TIL that the Romans had a festival where drunk and naked priests would hit people with whips to bring them fertility and ease the pain of child birth.
GpnE TIL upon hearing that the Crusaders had lost Jerusalem in 1187, Pope Urban III suffered a heart attack and died
vjE4 TIL That there is a website called worldometers which updates various statistics such as births, deaths, economic expenditure and CO2 emissions (as well as much more) in real time.
Qgye TIL Jason from the Friday the 13th is unmasked in nearly every film and has had a different looking face each time