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TIL: Today I learned that the US didn’t profit from Iraq’s Oil, in fact the US spent Billions on their oil infrastructure while Iraq reaped the profits AND this is old news

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yVPbp TIL that the word ‘Neanderthal’ originally comes from ‘the Valley of Neander,’ a 17th century German Calvinist whose surname was Greek for, quite ironically, ‘New Man’ (νέος ανήρ).
XEg48 TIL the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative of the Do Do Bird.
KOkOE TIL When Roman soldiers stopped the late senator Cicero, his last words were “There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly”, then bowed to the soldiers and was decapitated.
0yoM TIL Carl Sagan was part of Project A119, a project whose goal was to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon.
P1OLO TIL the restaurant chain Hooters was incorporated on April Fools Day because the original six owners believed that their prospect was going to fail.