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

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XEP5j TIL about the process of Natural Beekeeping and the Kenyan Top Bar Hive which also offers solutions to the falling bee populations
78YoX TIL that a 14y/o cheerleader was hospitalized when a 55LB (25kg) frozen coyote carcass struck her in the head at basketball game (1976).
vP49D TIL that as early as 1802, Thomas Jefferson designed a cypher wheel to encrypt messages. It's unknown if he ever actually built or used one, but a similar tool was invented for the U.S. Army to use from 1920 until the start of WWII. Jefferson's designs were discovered shortly after.
ne8Eo TIL turtles can "breathe" through their butts
aw40 TIL the scene in Spiderman 1 where Peter catches the food was actually performed with no CGI.