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TIL in 1953 the USA helped overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh and replaced it with a monarchy

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yx6M TIL Tupac Shakur was originally considered to play the part of Mace Windu in “Star Wars”, but was murdered before he could audition
4X84b TIL deaf kids in Nicaragua created a completely new sign language out of scratch when placed in deaf schools, after rejecting the sign language the teachers attempted to teach. It is now the official sign language of Nicaragua
j6K0X TIL that Eagles can see rabbits from two miles away as a distinct object, not just a blurry dot thanks to their large eyes that can take up more than 50% of their head and their retina with 5x more cells compared to humans.
0W9v TIL - Worms regrow their decapitated heads, along with the memories inside
pYOV8 TIL in 2017, five bald men were killed in Mozambique because their killers believed that the heads of bald men contain gold.