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TIL Marzieh Arfa became the (Imperial) Iranian Army's first female general over a decade before the US Army reached the same milestone.

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VZRD TIL that Carlsberg beer used to have a Swastika (as a symbol of purity) in its logo. They removed it in 1940 after the Nazi’s appropriated it.
OjXe TIL in 1999, Daylight Savings Time thwarted a terrorist bombing in Israel. The West Bank had changed clocks while Israel hadn’t. The terrorists had set timers on bombs which detonated an hour early, killing three terrorists.
5VL89 TIL Flamin Hot Cheetos was invented by hotshot snack food professionals to compete with spicy snacks sold in the Midwest
gMO54 TIL In 1994, the KKK applied to sponsor a section of the Interstate 55 highway near St. Louis, Missouri. The Supreme Court ruled the state could not refuse the KKK's sponsorship. But the state of Missouri took revenge by renaming the entire stretch of highway the "Rosa Parks Freeway."
4xdJ TIL when the Nazis designated the Beer Hall Putsch site as “sacred” and made it compulsory for citizens to do the Nazi salute when passing-by, as a form of passive resistance, people would take a detour alley that is nicknamed “Shirker’s Lane”, bypassing the beer hall completely.