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TIL the United States invaded Panama in 1989 to depose its leader Manuel Noriega

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D1xwe TIL about the American town 'Merrymount', founded 1624. Named from slang at the time for 'illicit' forms of sex - the town rejected Puritan values welcoming non-Heterosexuals, freeing indentured servants and intermarrying Native Americans. Five years later it was invaded and razed to the ground.
9e5X TIL that Scientists replicated 100 Psychology studies, and fewer than half got the same results
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