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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

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kO854 TIL the World Cup has a statistically significant effect on birth rates, the male/female sex ratio of newborns, and heart attacks in nations whose national teams are competing.
16bP8 TIL the indigenous pre-Columbian Muisca society of the Bogota valley had an egalitarian society that were so prosperous to the point they would create large, intricate gold objects and throw it into a lake as an offering to the gods.
ep9J TIL that over 99% of the electricity produced in Norway is renewable and clean
40Aw TIL: In Wyoming it is a misdemeanor to disclose the final sale price of real property (house, farm, etc). There is an effort to change this but it is being resisted by state politicians, with one stating that it “would show what a dummy I was when I bought my house”
JYVrV TIL that many US military officials, even war hawks such as Douglas MacArthur and several fleet admirals, opposed the usage of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and cruel. Curtis LeMay even went as far as to say "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all."