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TIL Fidel Castro during his first 6 months as President of Cuba built 1000 KM of roads, spent $300 million on water and sanitation projects, constructed 800 houses every month, & set a cap for landholdings to 993 acres per owner.

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16Om7 TIL the president of India is female.
Y7jl7 TIL by the year 2100, the human race will have lost about half of the languages in use today. Every fourteen days a language dies. For native speakers of Navajo, Southwestern Ojibwa, Ohlone or Aragonese, losing their language means losing cultural heritage and history.
QdM6 TIL that you can literally die of a broken heart; Broken heart syndrome, also called stress-induced cardiomyopathy can cause severe heart muscle failure, and can be the result of the severe stress hormones released after serious emotional trauma.
BERW TIL a key ingredient in root beer (sassafras root) was found to be carcinogenic and banned in 1960 by the FDA. Artificial versions are now generally used instead
wBRW TIL “Jacuzzi” is actually a brand of hot tubs, and people use it the same way Q-tips are used for cotton swabs