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Tarzan" actor Johnny Weissmuller was playing golf during the Cuban Revolution when his cart was suddenly surrounded by rebel soldiers. After doing the Tarzan yell for them, the guerrillas recognized him and even escorted him to his hotel.

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Eduardo Chibas, pre-revolution Cuban politician, shot himself dead on-air during his weekly radio show as a protest against the corrupt government. He didn't realise his allotted time was only 25 minutes, and the gesture ended up happening during an advert break instead.

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1. Key West is only about 90 miles from Cuba. Following Cuba's revolution many Cubans settled in Key West.

2. There was an NES game about the Cuban revolution featuring Che Guevera and Fidel Castro

3. The names Usnavy and Usmail were derived from literal US Navy and US Mail ships after the Cuban revolution by non-english speakers, who thought those were the ship's names.

4. The U.S. originally opposed and faught against Cuban liberation from the Spanish because they feared "another black republic" after Haiti's revolution.

5. In 1958, 5 time Formula 1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio was kidnapped prior to the Cuban Grand Prix. The kidnapping was orchestrated by Fidel Castro in an attempt to have the race cancelled and embarrass the current president. This was an early spark to the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

6. Peter Sagal wrote a screen play for political drama about the Cuban Revolution that got edited so much that it ended up becoming Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights

7. Castro's commitment to communism was questioned by William Alexander Morgan, an American who fought on the communist side of the Cuban revolution and who would also be blamed and executed for the explosion of a Cuban ship that almost led to nuclear war.

8. Fidel Castro toured NYC in April 1959, shortly after the Cuban revolution. He visited schoolchildren, the zoo, and the UN.

9. Cuba gets an annual check from the United States for the 'rent' on Guantanamo Bay. Since the Cuban revolution, only one check has been cashed. The rest of the checks are kept in a drawer by Fidel Castro himself.

10. Ted Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, sided with Castro in the Cuban Revolution, and later emigrated to Texas following the war.

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Today marks 60 years since a group of Cuban revolutionaries, led by Fidel Castro, disembarked to touch off the revolution in Cuba