cuba has been aiding and treating more than 18,000 children affected by the chernobyl disaster, free of charge, for the past 20 years.

during his 40-year rule, cuban president fidel castro slept with two women each day - one at lunch and one at dinner.

cuban leaders fidel castro and che guevara raised the cuban literacy rate from 76% to 96% in less than a year.

coca cola is not officially sold in cuba or north korea.

hours before he ordered the trade embargo against cuba, president kennedy bought 1,200 cuban cigars.

guantanamo bay, where the united states holds people to prevent them from being subject to u.s. laws that ban torture and guarantee the right to a trial, is part of cuba. cuba says that the united states is occupying its country illegally, and wants u.s. facilities there closed.

the united states has come up with some wild and crazy war plans. one of them was to oust former cuban leader fidel castro by spreading rumors that he was the antichrist, projecting an image of jesus on some clouds from a submarine, and firing off munitions while a loudspeaker pretended to be the voice of jesus, telling cuba's inhabitants to renounce communism.