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TIL that a group of American sugar plantation owners with support of the US Government overthrew the last Queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani to make Hawaii a US Protectorate. Hawaii would later be annexed.

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b9B9N TIL a village in Mexico, besieged by crime and corruption, cleaned up by blockading the town from criminals and kicking out the mayor, police, and all political parties. Electioneering is banned. Now, the town is self-governed and policed, offers recycling services, and protects the local forests.
PA8n TIL Muhammed Ali helped talk a 21yr old man down from jumping off a building in Los Angeles. Ali told the young man “You’re my brother. I love you and I wouldn’t lie to you.”
GwlN TIL that the oldest continuously serving navy in the world belongs to Portugal.
neJAY TIL caller ID spoofing is LEGAL in the United States. I wonder why carriers lack the technology to detect and block spoofed numbers
b6Z7E TIL in 1983, Atari buried truckloads of video gaming cartridges in a New Mexico landfill because they couldn’t sell them. The incident represented a turning point marking a decline of U.S gaming companies and allowing a few Japanese companies - Sega, Nintendo and Sony- to enter the U.S. market.