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TIL Reagan intended to give the technology behind SDI to the USSR in order to eliminate the threat of nuclear war for both parties.

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ZOmY TIL Less well-known to foreigners, Camilo Cienfuegos is revered in Cuba as a hero of the Revolution, with monuments, memorials, and an annual celebration in his honour, where school children throughout Cuba throw flowers into the sea. He went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1959.
ZpJ4v TIL Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is the final N64 game ever released in North America. It released August 20th, 2002.
WxR8 TIL the U.S. Department of Defense used 1760 Playstation 3’s to build a supercomputer because it was cheaper than the alternative
W7xro TIL in Italy there is a movement that has been compared to fairtrade, that markets brands and venues as anti mafia and not paying the extortion money, especially in areas hit hard by organized crime
R7N59 TIL Macy's originally agreed to be the department store in "Elf" however one stipulation was that Santa couldn't be revealed as a fake. Jon Favreau was unwilling to change the content so he changed the store to "Gimbel's" and filmed it in the cafeteria of a Vancouver mental hospital.