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TIL there is a park in Tampa owned by Cuba, and for 60 years it was the only piece of Cuban-owned land in the United States

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XERmQ TIL Elvis had to be rescued from a bowl of chicken soup that he began to drown in.
pyQ8 TIL that only one Soviet male was awarded the “Mother Heroine Medal” (reserved for women who bore at least 10 children), because he adopted 12 children.
6EKMl TIL about Sarah Rosetta Wakeman who was a woman that served in the Union Army During the American Civil War. Serving under a fake name, she was given the position of prison guard. During here time at the prison one of the female inmates there was doing time for the same crime she was committing.
wodG7 TIL that, forgotten dessert from 1920's called 'it girl'. Basically melt marshmallows on the stove, let them cool, and whip them into a foam with a small amount of cream, adding mashed fruit and little juice for flavor.
l7jBA TIL that despite being ubiquitous throughout the Roman world for centuries and appearing in sculptures and friezes across the empire, we don't know what the Romans called the armor they wore in battle. 16th century scholars gave it the name lorica segmentata.