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TIL that the US invaded Guatemala in 1954 and deposed democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán for the benefit of an american fruit company

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0dENj TIL that Blue Raspberry is largely Banana and Pineapple flavors. A bright blue dye was used because because the red food dye of the time had been banned.
4B5w TIL that the former president of the Milwaukee Police Association, John Balcerzak, found one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s fourteen year-old victims naked, drugged, and bleeding. After joking that the two were lovers, Balcerzak returned the victim to Dahmer, who later killed and dismembered the boy.
OGMmY Today I learned that the amusement park Six Flags derives it’s name from the six nations who have ruled over Texas (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, USA, and the Confederate States of America).
LkwYp TIL the north pole of Mars is surrounded by a flat and featureless lowland, several kilometers lower the mean height of the planet, called Vastitas Borealis
mxLyE TIL of Shaul Ladany, the current 50-mile walk world record holder and a Holocaust survivor who also survived the 1972 Olympics Munich Massacre by jumping off a balcony.