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Til Curtis Yarvin, friend of many oligarchs, is the architect of the idea of taking over the US by self coup/butterfly revolution

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gMYv7 TIL In November 2015, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania, reportedly ordered the 2015 Mauritanian Super Cup to go to a penalty shootout in the 63rd minute with the score tied 1–1 because he was getting bored with the match.
8egXL TIL all the instruments on Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You are either programmed or from a synthesizer. Carey’s co-writer on the song, Walter Afanasieff originally had a live band do the instrumental but was unsatisfied with the result and redid it by himself.
8aWYL TIL Ming China placed limits on how frequently its client states could offer tribute. This was because Ming China always provided a return gift whenever they received tribute, which would often be of greater value than the tribute received.
8BkZ TIL that Sweden was home to the world’s first institute for “racial biology”, which forcibly sterilized Sami women, among others, until 1975
VMvGD TIL the size and number of holes in Swiss cheese, also known as "eyes", can be controlled by adjusting the number of hay particles in milk used to make cheese.