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TIL Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara had only 1 female guerrilla fighter - and she was a radio host that provided encoded information live on-air through relationship advice to fictitious lovelorn couples.

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9Y0Ym TIL about the scaly-foot snail. These snails have been found living in volcanic vents in the Indian ocean. Part of their adaptation includes an iron shell.
QJnld TIL there are more payday loan stores in the US than there are Starbucks or McDonald’s
0wWp TIL that in Reservoir Dogs, the person Mr. Pink pulls out of her car is the same person that gets shot by Marcellus Wallace after the car wreck in Pulp Fiction.
pYkO TIL there’s a programming language called Brainfuck whose command set consists entirely of just 8 characters. The “Hello World” program can be written as “ ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++..+++.——.——–.>+.>.”
JYOJj TIL that Kingdom Hearts began as a literal elevator pitch, when a Square Enix developer ran into a Disney executive in the elevator of their shared building