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TIL that in 1985, the CIA killed 80 civilians and injured 200 in a botched attempt to assassinate Mohammad Fadlallah. This event is known in Lebanon as the Bir al-Abd massacre.

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Z8OjY TIL that Napoleon was of average height for his era and that his reputation as a short man was largely spread through the works of British satirical cartoonist James Gillray. His satire was so effective that Napoleon once said that Gillray "did more than all the armies of Europe to bring me down."
05Dv TIL that Argentina has almost 1m people of Irish decent and Che Guevara came from an Irish family.
oRyW TIL that 1 out of 100 Germans is genetically immune to the HIV virus.
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