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

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M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.
4kM6w TIL An aboriginal man with a tomahawk was the first Australian to capture a Japanese POW during WWII. He snuck up to a downed pilot and took him to the military base on a neighboring island.
D1a5D TIL in 332 BC when Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt they did not put up a fight against him, instead saw him as a liberator from the Persian empire, he was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
wLXZM TIL the Berlin Wall is now gone for as long as it stood: 28 years
VBKmZ TIL David Lynch has a foundation for teaching transcendental meditation to "at-risk" populations such as students, the homeless, U.S. military veterans, African war refugees and prison inmates.