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TIL that the Concorde supersonic airliner burned two tons of fuel just taxing from the gate to the runway

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MwLB TIL Mohammad Mosaddegh was a democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by CIA in 1953 for having the audacity to nationalize the Iranian oil industry by seizing it from the hands of the England and USA
PYR0g TIL that a school in Massachusetts has been condemned for torture by the UN
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booa TIL PeTA boycotted Liam Neeson’s movie because it depicted gray wolves in a negative light