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Apr 19, 2020
TIL U.S.A has an official strategic plan to combat a zombie apocalypse. Its called as Counter-Zombie Dominance Plan, or “CONPLAN 8888-11". The first line of the plan states, “This plan was not actually designed as a joke.”
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todayilearned
Feb 12, 2020
TIL the CIA actively helped Indonesian dictator Suharto massacre an estimated 1 million suspected Communist Party sympathizers in 1965, providing training, mass media suppression, and lists of individuals whom they later acknowledged as being innocent.
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powerful military leaders
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todayilearned
Sep 07, 2019
TIL: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who is often portrayed as the epitome of Mexican machismo, never drank alcohol. He actually was so worried about alcoholism spreading in Mexico, that he banned alcohol from his province of Chihuahua.
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viva villa!
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