10 Weird Facts About "Fidel Castro"

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Fidel Castro led Cuba for five decades and was the world's third longest-serving head of state, after Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand.

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Despite assassination plots, an invasion and five decades of economic sanctions, Fidel Castro outlasted nine U.S. presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton.

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The CIA had a plot to use a depilatory chemical on Fidel Castro to cause his beard to fall out.

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Fidel Castro holds the record for the longest speech ever delivered to the United Nations: 4 hours and 29 minutes, on Sept. 26, 1960.

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Fidel Castro was born on a Friday the 13th.

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In 1940, 12-year-old boy Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President F. Roosevelt to request a $10 bill because he had never seen one before.

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The CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was dubbed "Operation Castration."

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Fidel Castro has said that he saved ten working days a year by not bothering to shave.

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In 2007, the CIA released documents that revealed the agency's collaboration with the italian mafia in a failed 1960 attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro.

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There's one kosher butcher in Cuba. Fidel Castro personally allowed him to stay and serve 1,500 people practicing Judaism.

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