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TIl TIL that after the US landed the first people on the moon the Soviet Union framed Apollo 11 as “the fanatical squandering of wealth looted from the oppressed peoples of the developing world.”

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XEXMr TIL in 2013 the Redskins cheerleaders were being exploited to please sponsors in a showing outside the country and some were made to strip in front of male guest and passports were removed.
ne6vW TIL Pakistan started a Billion Tree Tsunami project 2 years ago, to plant 1 billion trees all over the country within 5 years. Today, they witnessed 70% increase in honey production.
rypy TIL That we have American Alligators in Oklahoma
e0w0g TIL cardinal birds are romantic; they mate for life, travel together, sing before nesting, and during courtship, the male feeds seed to the female beak-to-beak.
Wrrd TIL in 1954 the USA overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala.