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TIL the CIA committed a coup in Australia against a democratically elected prime minister in 1975.

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M7JkA TIL that during the War of 1812, Britain occupied and intended to annex the modern American state of Maine, even setting up a government for the “Crown Colony of New Ireland”, which collected £10,000 in tax revenues by war’s end
VBLDB TIL- As of 2022, there were fewer than nine fluent native speakers of Comanche.
0wVA TIL that all the meat in a Subway cold cut combo is actually turkey…
KPLG TIL Keanu Reeve’s mother was a stripper and his father was a drug dealer
Y7DLr TIL there was one survivor from Custer’s Last Stand, a horse named Comanche. The horse died several years later and was given full military honors, then was stuffed and placed in a Kansas museum.