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TIL In 1967 a 13 year-old Ohio teen rode his single speed bicycle 530 miles to the World's Fair in Montreal, Canada.

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Wkd6A TIL in 1959, rather than integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed all of their public schools for FIVE YEARS. White children attended state-subsidized "private schools". No provision was made for educating the county's black children.
Qxap TIL Fidel Castro, after 638 assassination attempts, mainly from the CIA, including exploding cigars and poisoned milkshakes, is still alive and kicking today at the age of 87
m1NNp TIL Donald Mastick accidentally tasted Plutonium and was banned from lab work. Despite this, he earned a physics PhD, started a highly successful interior landscape company, raised a family, and died of natural causes, all with few micrograms of Plutonium in his body.
1xWD TIL there is a Catalan cmad tradition of giving children a “Shitting log” a couple weeks before Xmas. They have to “feed” it and keep it warm so it will deficate their presents on Christmas eve by beating it with sticks.
LkMmr TIL about an Israeli Mossad agent by the name Eli Cohen who infiltrated the government of Syria and convinced them to plant trees which later was used by Israeli as targeting markers in the 6 day war.