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TIL that Killing Hope, the book about the history of US backed coups around the world, is publicly available on CIA.gov

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4dRX TIL that, though originally from the US, 7/11 has technically been a Japanese company since 1991. 7-Eleven Japan now runs all stores worldwide.
695Wl TIL of Eddie Futch who trained four of the five fighters (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick), who defeated Muhammad Ali.
yVe7v TIL that after scientists sequenced the genome of a tiger they found that it shares 95.6% of its DNA with the domestic cat, from which it diverged 10.8 million years ago.
mwjM TIL that there was no script for the first Iron Man movie with Robert Downey Jr. Co-star Jeff Bridges claims that Downey and director Jon Favreau would improvise and create each day’s scenes.
R50Z1 TIL that English speakers proposed abbreviating Coordinated Universal Time as CUT. French speakers proposed abbreviating it as TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). Neither side got what they wanted, as the official abbreviation is "UTC".