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TIL of the Persian campaign in WWI, where (despite its neutrality) Iran suffered 2,000,000 deaths- fourth most of all countries and first in terms of percentage of population.

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jNnGR TIL about the moon landing’s ‘Human Computers’. Who were a group of women, who held math and science degrees, and were responsible for managing the moon landing’s incredibly complex calculations. They also did it real-time, by written hand, and were faster than any technology available before 1970.
NXQ8Q TIL King Charles' funeral plans after Yahoo US revealed he has less than two years to live with pancreatic cancer
VMlQB TIL Stanford University developed Artificial Intelligence which can guess if a person is gay, based on a photo of their face, with 91% accuracy on dating sites.
QjMX TIL That a man was once charged with assault for defending his property against vandalizing teens, by spraying them with red fox urine.
Q85X TIL there is a history of CIA involvement in drug trafficking