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TIL The United States helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Brazil

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9YPnB TIL Australian school authorities once accidentally gave a standardized history exam asking students to analyze a painting of the Bolshevik Revolution with a giant robot in the background. When apologizing, they promised "new guidelines governing the use of internet-sourced material in exams."
0wPZp TIL the HIV epidemic was ignored as a 'gay disease' in the USA until a handful of straight people with the disease received national attention. One of them, a kid named Ryan White, refused the label of "innocent victim" as he worried it implied that gay HIV patients were somehow "guilty."
b9aya Til Mr.T was once diagnosed with a rare type of T-cell lymphoma. He than said “Can you imagine that?!,” Mr. T asks. “Cancer with my name on it –– personalized cancer.”
9mLG TIL that there are unmanned US-CAN border crossings. You talk officers using a videophone and hold your passport up for the camera.
PgPw TIL that of the 20 richest women in the world, all of them except #17, inherited their money from either their husband or their father.