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TIL that Europe has no Hollywood, despite critical acclaim, because European filmmakers, directors and actors keep moving to the USA.

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vyEL TIL there are at least 15 countries with absolutely no military forces
epBnL TIL A US Navy red cell kidnapped a civilian security officer as an exercise and proceeded to torture and beat him in a hotel room. The officer's wife nearly shot the members of the red cell, but the officer told her it was an exercise rather than a real kidnapping.
4kbla TIL in 1878 Vera Zasulich shot and seriously wounded Fyodor Trepov, the notoriously cruel governor of St Petersburg, after he ordered the flogging of a political prisoner who refused to remove his hat in his presence. A sympathetic judge and jury, and a skilled lawyer led to her getting acquitted
16ZD7 TIL scientists created a sort of telepathy using computers
R5Qb4 TIL the United States fought two wars in the 19th century in part to stop the enslavement of American Sailors