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TIL: Uncle Sam is the personification of the US Government, Columbia is the personification of the US People.

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AP5B TIL that, in the 19th Centruy, women believed to be suffering from hysteria were treated with pelvic physical therapy - that’s an orgasm to you and me.
p8GZZ TIL that during the Austro-Prussian War, Liechtenstein had an army of 80 men. During the conflict no men were injured or killed and they returned home with 81 men because they’d made an Italian friend along the way. The army was then disbanded and Liechtenstein hasn’t had a military since.
OkpX TIL a voting system exists that lets you select candidates in order of preference. Votes “roll over” from a losing candidate to the next preferred. This “political average” overcomes flaws of single-ballot voting.
6mp7 TIL That after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington went on to seduce two of Napoleon’s former mistresses and was presented Napoleon’s sword and a saucy painting of his sister at the war’s end. One mistress is quoted as having preferred the Duke in bed.
lYN1 TIL that Daveigh Chase (little girl from The Ring) has committed animal abuse on a dog, even going as far as to leave it abandoned on a Nevada highway with a cigarette burn on it’s neck. Her boyfriend successfully took the dog’s new family to court and retained custody.