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TIL Fidel Castro's sister emigrated to the US and was a vocal opponent of her brother's regime in Cuba, working with the CIA

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16Dmr TIL: There was a Roman pharmacologist named Sextius Niger who wrote that you can increase sexual desire by eating salamanders that were preserved in honey. He was also head of a school of philosophy known as the School of the Sextii which recommended vegetarianism.
OoXE6 TIL that the Superman actor Henry Cavil has been an avid PC gamer since childhood and even missed the call to play Superman because he was playing the game World of Warcraft
WJ4X TIL there are four sunken nuclear submarines at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, located near Bermuda, holds sixteen live nuclear warheads.
N7WXe TIL that the reason old pubs have "Ye Old" instead of "The Old" is because when the printing press was invented in Germany, they didn't have any letters for the old letter Thorn, which made a "th" sound. Thorn ultimately was replaced with Y because they looked similar until the Th start was popular.
YeP7 TIL that the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery except as a punishment for a crime