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TIL that Cuba has a state-run hip-hop label: La Fabri-k

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dDyVj TIL about Project Excalibur, a sub-program within the US's Strategic Defense Initiative that intended to provide defense against ballistic missiles in the most abysmal way imaginable: Anti-ICBM Nuke Blast X-Ray Laser Beams
BrJve TIL Infamous pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach operated off the coast of the American colonies so frequently that he once crashed his ship off North Carolina, spent time on land in Virginia, and later blockaded the port of the then-province of South Carolina!
lo9Br TIL In Manhattan by the 1870s, horse manure added up to millions of pounds each day and over a 100,000 tons per year. Horse refuse and the remains of dead horses littered the streets.
aRQ0 TIL There is a bizarre colony of displaced Ants living in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
7rbjx TIL that the world's oldest prosthetic device, an artificial wooden toe was found on a 3,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian woman in 1997. Now, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have learned a great deal about how the toe functioned, what it's made of, and how it was fabricated.