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TIL Winston Churchill got Iran to change its name to Persia, to avoid confusion with Iraq during WW2

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X0Pa8 TIL the phrase“bleeding heart liberal” came from Pulitzer Price winning journalist, Westbrook Pegler in 1933. He used the phrase denouncing an anti-lynching bill before Congress. He also finished 3rd in Times Man of the Year behind FDR and Stalin in 1941.
Oyk7 TIL…Apache pilots train their eyes to work independently
4k8la TIL: The first highly successful disposable product was the bottle cap in 1892, also known as a crown cork.
LQ1d9 TIL that in 1994, Japan had a GDP per capita that was 1.4 times larger than that of the US. In 2021, the US has a GDP per capita that is 1.8 larger than Japan’s
KOEk6 TIL Morgan Freeman converted his 124 Acre Ranch into a bee sanctuary in an effort to help bee populations