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TIL Fidel Castro Believed JFK’s Death Was a Conspiracy with Three People Involved

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pYvKG TIL Bald Eagles get their name from an old English word, "balde”, meaning White. The Latin name for bald eagles is “Haliaeetus leucocephalus” which means “white-headed sea eagle”.
dDE0K TIL Freud smoked about 20 cigars a day and was not convinced that cigars were linked to his heart problems. He eventually got oral cancer, suffered attacks of “tobacco angina”, or heart palpitations, whenever he smoked, and died with removed jaw
m1vav TIL in 1656 Boston, a ship's captain was sentenced to sit in the stocks for two hours because he had engaged in "lewd and unseemly behavior" on the Sabbath. Upon arriving home on a Sunday after a three-year voyage at sea, Captain Kemble had kissed his wife
0jP5 TIL the woman who had prayer abolished in school, Madalyn O'Hair, was murdered along with her son and granddaughter.
nMeb TIL in 2010 large tombs were found near the Great Pyramids containing the “slaves” that built them, suggesting they were actually highly honored, paid laborers