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TIL that America founded the Iranian Nuclear program.

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GPo7 TIL that the idea for Interstellar came from a physicist and a film producer who knew each other from a blind date set up by Carl Sagan
K4p6 TIL One of the last verifiable surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War was Lemuel Cook, who died in 1866 at 105. He lived long enough to see the end of the Civil War.
Yp9GG TIL before the D-Day invasion, Eisenhower threatened to step down because he wanted to divert Allied strategic bombers that had been hammering German industrial plants to instead begin bombing critical French infrastructure. The threat worked and bombing commenced, ending World War II.
MAG7 TIL that loofahs are not sea sponges at all, instead they are gourds, and you can grow them in your own garden
nxOb TIL that writer Michel Dansel (Michel Thaler) wrote a 233 page book without using a single verb. Before him, George Perec had written a whole book without using the “e” vowel, and another one only using the “e” as a vowel!