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TIL Fidel Castro survived 638 assassination attempts, sprawling over decades.

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x96b TIL that in China, 40% of engineers are women, and in the former USSR, women accounted for 58% of the engineering workforce.
Ea4V TIL after years spent working on the film “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,” screenwriter Robert Towne grew dissatisfied with the production and chose to credit his dog, P.H. Vazak, with the script instead of himself. Vazak went on to become the first dog nominated for an Oscar for screenwriting.
QNDJa TIL The Thonet No. 14 chair was the first mass-produced piece of furniture. The ease of production came from the wood being curved an iron mold. Over 50 million of these chairs have been sold since the invention in 1859.
a8Yp0 TIL at the Mcdonald's Global Headquarters in Chicago, IL, they have a restaurant with menu items from all over the world that you can try...and a "Hamburger University"
7dGr TIL the CIA had an operation called “Acoustic Kitty” in which they surgically implanted a bugging device into a cat, only to have it being squashed by a taxi on it’s first mission. The project was cancelled shortly after, having cost about $25M or over $185M adjusted for inflation.