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TIL that Fidel Castro’s personal love for dairy products and ice cream was so great that he began a state funded project to grow Cuba’s dairy industry by bio engineering a cow that was perfect for producing milk and could thrive in Cuba’s warm climate.

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N94Q TIL that in 1978, a man was shot clean through the face by a particle beam and is still alive today.
QN7ed TIL: A site manager's failed attempt to free a stuck flatbed truck resulted in it rolling off a cliff, blocking a railway tunnel just as an express train was approaching, leading to a crash that killed 49 people.
jaNj TIL rattlesnakes are evolving to not have rattles, making it harder for humans to detect and kill them.
MaRA TIL there was a pod of killer whales in Eden, Australia between 1840 and 1930 that would assist whalers in hunting baleen whales. The killer whales would find target whales, shepherd them into Twofold Bay, and alert whalers to their presence, often helping them to kill the whales.
R7Qra TIL Home Depot founder Ken Lagone and his wife donated $100,000,000 to fund free tuition for every student attending New York University's medical school