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TIL in 1953 US and Britain instigated a coup d'état in Iran which began a period of dissolution for Iranian democracy and society. This eventually led to the Iranian revolution and the creation of an Islamic Republic.

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nB8d TIL Kenneth Dover, one of the 20th century’s top classical scholars, admitted in his autobiography to engineering the suicide of a colleague who bothered him
rNJ64 TIL During the Vietnam War over 8 million tons of bombs were dropped on South East Asia or 1 every 8 minutes
69GKZ TIL about the Mandan, or "Welsh Indians." A tribe of Native Americans with a European appearance and a language that sounded like Welsh, they were at first believed to have been the descendants of the legendary Welsh explorer, Prince Madoc, who was said to have sailed to America in the 1170s.
QJwre TIL in WWII, Germany carried out only one land operation in north America, the installation of a secret weather station in Newfoundland. They scattered American cigarette packets and planted a sign saying "Canadian Meteor Service" in case anyone found it, and the site wasn't rediscovered until 1977.
p8OZ TIL Some Paralympic athletes gain an unfair advantage by purposely injuring themselves on areas of their body with no feeling. It’s called “boosting” and the goal is to trick the body into triggering a kind of fight-or-flight response, and in doing so, increase performance.