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TIL - The same Duke of York, who lent his name to New York, also had the slaves of his Royal African Company branded with his title initials 'DY'.

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rDR4 TIL that the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular, democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. This led to 26 years of rule under a repressive monarch.
8e0pa TIL about the Davis Gun, a WW1 era attempt to create a recoilless gun by having two guns fire forwards and backwards simultaneously. A third gun was sometimes attached to the top
egWn TIL of Steven Jay Russell, who impersonated a prison guard to simply walk out of prison. Upon recapture Russell lowered and paid his bail by pretending to be a judge, escaped his next capture by impersonating a doctor, and did so AGAIN by faking his death, eventually landing him a 144yr sentence.