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TIL the CIA actively helped Indonesian dictator Suharto massacre an estimated 1 million suspected Communist Party sympathizers in 1965, providing training, mass media suppression, and lists of individuals whom they later acknowledged as being innocent.

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EVlw TIL Norway gets 98-99% of its electricity from hydroelectric power, more than any other country
LBev TIL once 4th largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea, has declined to only 10% of its original size since the 1960’s. The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters.
VBWkD TIL that phones originally were connected to the wall by a wire, and had no Internet access
ZJJv TIL that a Googolplex, or 10^(10^100), is a number so large that in written form, it would not fit within the observed universe.