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TIL that “one moment” is actually a medieval unit of time representing ~90 seconds

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rvrM TIL CIA Operation Mongoose tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars, shells to poisoned wetsuits, milkshakes, a former lover; character assassination via thallium to make his beard fall out and LSD. Castro: “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
PV9w TIL Boudica destroyed so much of ancient London, that dozens of feet below current street level, lies a thick red, burnt strip archaeologists call the “Boudica Destruction Layer”
kJk5g TIL Theodor Morell, Adolf Hitler’s quack personal physician, prescribed him cocaine eye drops, heavy doses of oxycodone, and amphetamines, sometimes up to 20 times a day. To combat Hitler’s excessive flatulence, he prescribed “Doktor Koster’s Antigas Pills”, a mixture of atropine and strychnine
G5A4 TIL: An Italian tradition, now spreading, of caffè sospeso (suspended coffee) where people can pay for coffees on top of their own so the less well off can have a cup too.
OG7rY TIL The International Space Station is 357 feet end-to-end? That’s almost the same length as a football field, including both end zones.