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TIL: There is a Japanese version of John Denver's "Country Road"

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ZVnY TIL in 1954 American CIA overthrew a democratically elected Guatemala government for the United Fruit Company.
R7XNl TIL in the year 2000 the award-winning publication UPI (United Press International) was bought by billionaire cult leader Sun Myung Moon, who claimed to be the second coming of Christ. Mr. Moon has since died, but UPI is still owned by his holding company.
QNrrk Today I learned that U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese in caves hundreds of feet below Missouri
aboZ TIL that 30 years ago, you had about about 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today it’s down to 3-4 minutes.
VBE50 TIL. Physiologist Giles Brindley, in 1983 presented his treatment for erectile disfunction by injecting himself before his talk and dropping his pants to show the crowd of urologists.