I’m not sure. The initial newspaper articles say that the army wasn’t allowed to provide details, but I think other ex-hostages did tell more in various formats in the months and years that followed.
One thing he did was denounce the Shah, and the CIA, on a video, apparently without much coercion:
TIL, more Americans live in Mexico (800,000) than live in Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, or Alaska.
As a child growing up in PA, I knew about Mr. Yuk, the symbol used to warn kids away from hazardous materials. I assumed he was universal. Turns out, he was not, and had competition, such as Uncle Barf and Officer Ugg. Mr. Yuk is still the best. There’s a theme song for Ugg, but I couldn’t find it or get the link for the Yuk PSA to post.
I remember Mr. Yuk, too.
Turns out there’s a Mr. Ouch who has been around since 1983, but I’ve never seen him before. Frankly, he looks a lot more menacing than Mr. Yuk:
You mean this commercial? It used to creep me out as a kid. Still does.
Thank you for that. I generally rag on Wyoming and representation by pointing out that a neighboring city has more people than all of Wyoming. Now I have something different to say in class.
I just found out the words “apricot” and “precocious” are cognates. The both come from Latin words meaning “early ripening”.
Kim Il Sung was born on the day the Titanic sank.
Apricot didn’t pass from Latin to Romance languages to English, as so often is the case; it took a detour through Arabic.
Here is the Wikipedia etymology, which is similar to my American Heritage Dictionary:
" Apricot first appeared in English in the 16th century as abrecock from the Middle French aubercot or later abricot ,[2] from Spanish albaricoque and Catalan a(l)bercoc , in turn from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “the plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκίᾱ (berikokkíā, “apricot tree”), derived from late Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion , “apricot”) from Latin [persica (“peach”)] praecocia (praecoquus , “early ripening”).[3][4][5]"
So that’s who "put the ape in apricot !
Whadda they got that I ain’t got?
This is one of the most inspiring speeches in history. I mean, what makes the muskrat guard his musk?
If you’re interested, the podcast 99% Invisible just did an episode about Mr Yuk.
Sounds like it was very educational indeed, then.
So did Euclid’s Elements. All modern copies of it trace back to translations into Arabic.
As a teenager, I remember when Mr. Yuk first came into widespread use and hearing about how the preceding Jolly Roger symbol, with its big grin, looked too happy to children.
The first tv spot in the Got Milk? ad campaign was directed by Michael Bay.
That’s actually what inspired my post. Very interesting podcast.
TIL about robot jockeys used in camel races. Machines are taking everyone’s jobs!
So my PhD was for nothing. 
You got a jockey doctorate?
Camel jockey, please! We’re snobs about that – horse jockeys just need a master’s degree.