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TIL that the modern iteration of Sudoku was only invented in 1979

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neWRb TIL that Saddam Hussein received the Key to the City of Detroit in 1980 after donating thousands of dollars to local churches.
DQaer TIL about the Office of Price Administration (OPA) created during WW2 in the US to control prices and protect consumers against profiteering.
Xk1k TIL that when studying sea anemones off the coast of Yemen, researchers discovered that there’s no natural enemy for the Yemeni anemone.
VA6p TIL Attorneys from Coors brewery were appointed by Reagan to the EPA after campaign donations by Joseph Coors. The EPA then lifted restrictions on the dumping of toxic waste in Colorado, home of the Coors brewery.
R5Y84 TIL In 1986, biologist Noel Kempff Mercado and his team inadvertently stumbled upon a secret cocaine production facility in Bolivia’s Huanchaca National Park. The drug traffickers subsequently killed Kempff Mercado and most of his team. The national park would later be renamed after Kempff Mercado.