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TIL the timezone on the International Space Station is GMT+0

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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.
546P TIL Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park) is only an O away from being an EGOT (emmy, grammy, oscar, tony award winner)