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gMrgA TIL The first president of Ghana who helped his country gain independence in 1960 was overthrown in a coup in 1966. He lived in exile in Guinea by its leader who made him the honorary co-president of the country
rRVY4 TIL that in 2016, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought an undeclared war for four days which ended in a stalemate. Despite minimal international attention, it killed about 350 people
P11bJ TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte sniffed over seven pounds of snuff a month.
rWxw TIL that a Roman woman in the Netherlands was buried in a sarcophagus decorated to look like her house… from the inside.
7rg4x TIL Covert consciousness "is consciousness that cannot be detected by bedside examination. Studies . . . suggest that approximately 10 percent of those believed to be in a vegetative state or a low-level minimally conscious state . . . can actually follow commands during functional MRI or EEG tests"