Almost Bananas
They look like bananas, but they don’t exactly taste like them. Cuba is abundant with “cooking bananas” – a somewhat sweeter and starchier form of bananas. They can be eaten raw, but are generally used in cooking.
Losing The Beard
Everyone knows that one of the most iconic features of Fidel Castro was his beard. What do you think he would be without it? Well, apparently the CIA believed that he wouldn’t be much without it and that’s why they formulated a plot to get rid of it. They wanted to use a depilatory chemical to cause his beard to fall out.