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TIL that in 2005 the Georgian President fired the entire traffic police force in an attempt to reduce corruption (xpost; original post did not gain visibility).

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jNK9v TIL under President Reagans directive, the United States (via the CIA) funneled more than $2 billion in guns and money to the mujaheddin (which became the Taliban) during the 1980s to defeat and remove the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action program since World War II.
R7WG4 TIL the author Otto Wilhelm Rahn resigned from the SS & on 3/13/1939 was found frozen to death on a mountainside near Söll, in Austria (then part of Greater Germany). His death was ruled to be a suicide by the Nazis.
b6LVp TIL: Battle of Blair Mountain: The largest labor uprising in America. A five day battle between 10,000 miners and 3,000 lawmen and strike breakers
5apn TIL In 1107 King Sigurd I of Norway launched a crusade that fought in Spain, the Mediterranean, and the Holy Land. They won every battle they participated in.
b6gWa TIL Potatoes are not indigenous to Ireland. They were cultivated by the Incas circa 8000 BC and first brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century.