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TIL that among the many CIA plots to assassinate, overthrow, or humiliate Fidel Castro, one plan called for poisoning him so that his beard would fall out.

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kOQPd TIL Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X, was killed by her own twelve-year-old grandson in 1997. Wanting to return to his mother, who was in treatment as part of a plea agreement for plotting to kill Louis Farrakhan, he set his grandmother's apartment on fire. She died weeks later of her injuries.
GApwQ TIL gas stoves are linked to nearly 13 percent of childhood cases of asthma in the United States
XOb8 TIL A Japanese Baseball Team, the Hanshin Tigers, is Believed to be Cursed by the Ghost of Colonel Sanders
Q9Pe TIL: The largest private home in America was built in 1895 by the Vanderbilts and would cost $250M to build today.
wL8l1 TIL of Olga of Kiev who, after her husband was killed, started out on a killing spree that eventually wiped out a whole city.