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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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5YpD9 TIL whales spouting water out of blowholes is a common error propagated in children's books and movies (the whale would be drowning if it did so). A 2016 scientific survey of children's books featuring whales and cetaceans revealed 74/116 had factual errors, including almost half of the non-fiction.
byY9 TIL that West Germany’s players were injected with meth before they won the 1954 World Cup final.
4MBJ TIL The Finnish military once repulsed a massive invasion by the Soviet Union, with a million men and thousands of tanks. The Finnish had just a few dozen tanks and only 114 airplanes, but destroyed more than 3,500 of the Russian tanks, and caused 323,000 total casualties to the Russian force.
R7EB4 TIL Rick Springfield, the singer behind the 80's rock hit, 'Jessie's Girl', has one of the largest collections of Star Wars toys in the world, with an estimated value of more than $500,000
6EQVQ TIL Robert Downey Jr. had such a bad criminal record that he was interrogated for 6 hours at customs on his way to the Iron Man premiere in Japan, before being told never to come back again