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TIL during the 444 day Iran Hostage Crisis, Khomeini released a group of women and African Americans, deeming them to be victims of “the oppression of American society.”

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gME58 TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils
rga4 TIL that mass distribution is a primary factor in sword quality, affecting both the location of pivot points and the vibration dampening nodes.
O1eg TIL: The last surviving eyewitness of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination was a man named Samuel J. Seymour who lived until April 12, 1956 at the age of 96. In February 1956, Seymour appeared on the TV game show I’ve Got a Secret, where he described the assassination in detail.
KYbjG TIL that Earth's atmosphere is leaking. Every day, around 90 tonnes of material escapes from our planet's upper atmosphere and streams out into space.
kWK7 TIL a guy named James Randi will pay US$1,000,000 (One Million US Dollars) to any person who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability. It remains unclaimed for 40 years.