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

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j6dgQ TIL that "sheeple" is not actually internet slang or a term coined due to modern political discourse. The first documented use of the term appeared in a March 1945 Op-Ed of "The Musical Times' criticizing the BBC.
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