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TIL “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” has five verses

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P1g8O TIL that contrary to popular belief, the CIA did not stage a coup against Mossadegh, the not so democratically elected PM of Iran. Rather, the power to oust the PM was already given to the Shah and had been exercised against Mossadegh twice before.
b6WLj TIL the soft drink brand 'Mirinda' gets its name from the Esperanto word for "amazing"
v14BR TIL: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another's scientist's experiments
ney5d TIL about the Wolbachia bacteria, which can only be transmitted by females, so eliminates males by killing them or turning them female, and enables host females to reproduce without males
gdpA TIL David Prowse, the guy in the Darth Vader suit in the original trilogy, is banned by George Lucas from all Star Wars events.