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TIL Iran holds elections, but the Ayatollah chooses which candidates are allowed to run.

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Oo5Ng TIL that building the International Space Station cost more than $150 billion and is the most expensive item ever build.
VM9Lm TIL Charles Dickens' final novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was only half-finished when Dickens died. 3 years later, an American printer published a completed version which he claimed had been literally "ghost-written" by channeling Dickens' spirit - and it was praised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
KYOXR TIL in 1272 the theft of a cow in the town of Ciney led to a 6 years war and thousand of death
XE9gQ TIL, different types of music affected the taste of wine.
xVNr1 TIL that while American Sign Language is NOT universal and vastly different than even other English speaking countries, it is similar to French Sign Language because of frenchman Laurent Clerc who helped found the first school of the Deaf in America.