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TIL the CIA was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953.

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6E8NQ TIL a couple from Alberta went to their abandoned farm to scavenge the septic tank pump instead of buying a new one, only to find the body of a man that was brutally tortured before being dumped there. The murder remains unsolved.
166Yd TIL The Python programming language was named after Monty Python, not a snake.
kwae TIL that sounds can still be heard in space despite the lack of air. Radio waves exist, emitted by planetary bodies, that can be detected by the human ear. NASA released audio files demonstrating this.
7rwvb TIL the oldest living Nobel laureate, Edmond Fischer was born on April 6, 1920. He and his collaborator Edwin Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins & regulate various cellular process.
nW677 TIL filmmaker Spike Lee sued Viacom, claiming that the name of the Spike TV channel exploited his public persona.