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TIL in 1973 the United States organized the overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean government and established a military dictatorship that committed mass genocide

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e4a6 TIL the world’s biggest traffic jam was an 18-million-car backup, on Easter weekend, April 1990, the first holiday in nearly 40 years that Germans were free to visit family on the other side of the border separating East Germany from West Germany
wLlw1 TIL In 1965, the Welsh village Capel Celyn and surrounding farms were flooded in order to make a reservoir to provide water for Liverpool despite protests from the locals and the Welsh Members of Parliament.
Evb7 TIL by 1580, a syphilis outbreak in Europe left most people bald. A surge of wigmaking sparked the trend of powdered wigs which lasted for almost 200 years.
PYdGE TIL that the biggest fish ever caught was a 2,664 pound great white shark back in 1959
newlb TIL one of the "Best" Tic Tac UFO pictures is from Angels Camp, California (United States) on Thursday 30 August 2007