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TIL that in 2006, the US ambassador to Syria received instructions to overthrow the Syrian government by force. Instructions included intentionally stoking sectarian tensions to destabilize the government.

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EyWo TIL that Jazz legend Charles Mingus not only trained his cat to use the toilet, but also published a guide on the topic
OoNpa TIL that in England, the period, as in the punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence, is called a full stop.
X04l6 TIL the map of a Fly Brain closely matched the architecture used in current AI models
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