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TIL that United Fruit Company, now Chiquita, played a major role in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’tat after the country redistributed 400,000 acres of uncultivated company land.

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6o9Q TIL Stephen Fry spent time in prison for credit card fraud
a6Ko TIL A Woman Claiming A Wild Dingo Stole Her Child Was Convicted Of Murder And Sentenced To Life Imprisonment With Hard Labor. She Was Not Released Until A Piece Of Her Child’s Clothing Was Found In A Dingo Lair 3 Years Later.
QJKeM TIL that gonorrhea is one of the strongest known organisms, capable of pulling with a force 100,000 times their own body weight, this is equivalent to a human pulling 10 million kilos.
vlvj TIL any member of the French Foreign Legion wounded while defending France can immediately apply for French citizenship as he is “French by spilled blood”
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