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

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VBgN8 TIL that the writer of “Jingle Bells” fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War even though he was from Massachusetts and his father was a chaplain in the Union army.
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