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TIL that in 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister. The US and the UK violently overthrew him, and installed a west friendly monarch in order to give British Petroleum - then AIOC - unrestricted access to the country’s resources.

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QRGe TIL that if pigs are not castrated the meat will have an unpleasant odor when cooked; referred to as “Boar Taint.”
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