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TIL Cuban leader Fidel Castro invented the basketball move, the Euro Step.

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QNkNp TIL William Hopper, who played Paul Drake on Perry Mason, won a Bronze Star in WWII.
9wkLQ TIL: Saudi Declares Online Satire A Punishable Offense
m1j8O TIL “Lilliputian” Hallucinations Are Visualizations of Miniature People (And Sometimes Animals & Other Tiny Items), That Are Usually in Groups & Active. Sometimes, The Small People Speak in "Lilliputian" (Small) Voices. This is Associated With a Pleasant State of Mind & Not Unpleasant or Terrifying.
JYV91 TIL that Seattle's Sound Transit renamed its proposed "Red Line" rail because the name evoked "redlining," the historic practice of denying mortgage loans to poor, mostly minority, neighborhoods, which further impoverished them.
1agpO TIL that scientists in San Diego, CA have successfully genetically modified certain cancer cells to destroy other ones, using antibody therapy. The modified cells are transformed into super-charged immune cells.