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TIL the CIA released reports in 2007 detailing how it partnered with the Mafia to assassinate Castro

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R5Zjl TIL that Mel Gibson was born in New York
QJQl9 TIL when Robert Goddard, pioneer of American rocket propulsion, proposed the concept of a moon mission in 1920, the New York Times published an editorial explaining a rocket in space could not work because there would be no air for the exhaust to push against.
R7op7 TIL about A.L.EX. (Avian Language EXperiment) the Parrot, who had the intelligence of a 5 year old human and even managed to say some famous last words: "You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you." to his caretaker.