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TIL all passengers and crew of Saudia Flight 163 died because the King’s aircraft was taking off while their own aircraft burned up

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78JMP TIL that Scandinavians settled Greenland 300 years before native Greenlanders did
6EObX TIL that the Soviets realised that the Americans and British were developing an atomic bomb when they noticed that Western scientists had ceased publishing papers on nuclear science. Correctly guessing that nuclear science had been made a state secret, they began their own program
nWad9 TIL after the beheading of Charles I in 1649 England became a republic. His son, Charles II, was crowned king by the Scots but he was exiled to France for his safety. He was invited to London in 1660 and restored his father's throne.
xVXv5 TIL Congress has set out a bill to stop the FCC from taking away our Internet. PLEASE SPREAD THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!
M7BQV TIL about Operation Condor - an American and French funded right-wing terror operation that resulted in coups against and assassination and torture of left-wing sympathizers in South America between 1975 to 1983