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TIL that the democratically elected government of Iran was ousted by the CIA in 1953 because they nationalised their oil.

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rR9A4 TIL almost all airplane seats are blue because physcologists discovered that the color helps to calm anxiety and relieve fear, which makes the plane ride more comfortable for many people.
1ajPV TIL that between 1950 to 1970, The Scottish government coerced about 60,000 Scottish mothers into giving up their children simply because they were unmarried. The children were given up for adoption.
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GARg TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the definition for “walrus” and many other W words in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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