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TIL Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are Whack. In all three states it is legal to intentionally run over coyotes and kill them with a snowmobile. They call it whacking. WY and ID also allow wolves to be cruelly killed in this manor. Predator control is the excuse.

W1GY TIL during the Tiananmen Square incident Chinese agents were tasked with spotting foreign journalists taking pictures from their hotel room windows. After determining their room number an entry team would batter down the door and try and seize any film.
1OAr TIL that in 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister. The US and the UK violently overthrew him, and installed a west friendly monarch in order to give British Petroleum - then AIOC - unrestricted access to the country’s resources.
ANGZx TIL German Donaldists are actively infiltrating the culture pages of several important newspapers in Germany, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where they subtly install quotations easily recognisable to fans of the comics.
D6LV TIL Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the most incest-friendly royal family in recorded history, and her first two husbands were her younger brothers
xVAOb TIL Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator with the intent that the action star would use his martial arts skills to make the Predator an agile, ninja-like hunter. It was reported that Van Damme constantly complained about the suit being too hot and caused him to pass out.