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TIL John Stockwell estimated over 6 million people had been killed due to CIA covert ops back in 1987.

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QmyE TIL many Japanese still use clam-shell flip-phones, which “are called Galápagos phones because they evolved perfectly for an isolated environment.” The flip-phones are advanced enough & come with features locked into a Japan-only ecosystem that many customers are slow to adopt smartphones.
XQGP TIL The word Panic comes from the ancient greek god Pan
VB0a0 TIL the air quality in Delhi, India, is on average between 200-500 AQI (poor to hazardous) from October through February. The worst was on November 8th 2017 during the “Great Smog of Delhi” when the smog reached its peak at 999 AQI.
JnKm TIL that until 1936, Liechtenstein and Haiti were unknowingly using the same flag, and they didn’t find out until they competed against each other in the Olympics
e0VQ5 TIL just about every product we buy and use has been gobbled up by one of about 10 megacorporations