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TIL: The USA overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran and installed a dictator.

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VpBQ TIL that American speech is punctuated with “uh” & “um”, English speech with “er” & “erm”, Japanese with “ā”, “anō”, & “ēto”, German with “äh”, French with “euh”– basically, every language uses different sounds to interrupt themselves while their brain is working on forming thoughts into words.
9bdr TIL of a man named Simon Bunce who was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
ZKNo TIL Galileo’s middle finger is up for display at a museum in Florence, Italy
QJrOe TIL George Lucas enjoyed racing cars and owned a souped-up, high-powered Fiat in high school. Shortly before graduating he was involved in a serious car accident, nearly dying from his injuries. After recovering from a three-month hospital stay, Lucas decided that he wanted to go to art school
yJ7e TIL a guy hung dolls from trees on an island in honour of a little girl who died, he eventually covered the whole island in dolls until he committed suicide