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TIL that Iran has banned the mullet haircut to “confront the cultural assault by the West”.

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y86v TIL John Stockwell estimated over 6 million people had been killed due to CIA covert ops back in 1987.
EOVx TIL Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh was married to a Chinese woman. But today, Vietnamese government refused to acknowledge her existence, instead they promoted myth that he was celibate because “he was so dedicated to revolution”
GApY1 TIL that Héctor Castro, an Uruguayan footballer, won the 1930 World Cup with an amputated right forearm. He accidentally amputated his right forearm while using an electric saw aged 13.
d8VbB TIL There were so many bombs and chemical weapons dumped into the Gulf of Mexico not even the military knows how much is down there, or where it all is.
WRKL TIL of the “self attribution fallacy” which suggests that “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire”