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TIL US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before the Iranian revolution; and that Carter administration paved way for Khomeini to return to Iran by holding the army back from launching a military coup

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0dGD1 TIL that most of the moons of Uranus are named after Shakespeare characters.
j61ev TIL Baseball legend Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a bus. Six violations of the Articles of War were the charges.
EdXp TIL Iceland’s population is so low they have an incest-prevention app
labr TIL Denmark was the first country to be fully transplanted into the Minecraft games, the government hoped it could help make lessons more fun for students until hackers ‘bombed’ Minecraft version of Denmark in cyber-attack
wLZY7 TIL - An 11 year old girl in Nova Scotia, when told she couldn't swim in her local river, initiated testing of the river for fecal contaminants. After the samples tested above allowable limits, three levels of government committed $15 million to install 600 septic tanks along the river.