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TIL Kinshasa is the most populated city in Africa with an estimated population of over 16 million people

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Wrrd TIL in 1954 the USA overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala.
gM5dA TIL a nearly worthless Mormon owned cow precipitated the start of the US war with the Lakota.
5VGjR TIL about democracy sausage. In Australia, it has become a custom to sell sausages at polling stations on election day. It's usually a fundraiser for the institution that houses the polling station, and can be their biggest fundraiser of the year.
kONBd TIL that Malta has a total of 359 churches, nearly one for every day of the year. With an area of only 316 square kilometres, the country's "church density" is slightly more than 1 church per square kilometre. It's difficult to get lost in Malta because a church will lead you to its village centre.
N7bR1 TIL - The inventor of the shiftless and seemless CVT (continuously variable transmission) was in fact Leonardo Da Vinci.