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TIL: Only 5 countries in the world have never been under any sort of European control.

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oRYLW TIL Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II who led the largest anti colonial rebellion in Spanish American history in 18th century Peru
4XKgb TIL the 1965 film ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so Historically Inaccurate, That President Eisenhower Came Out of Retirement & Held a Press Conference Just to Denounce the Film.
m5Qy TIL of Karl von Müller, Captain of the German WWI vessel the SMS Emden, who would allow the passengers of the enemy merchant ships time to gather their belongings and abandon the ship before sinking it.
d8vxE TIL that the word "slacker" was commonly used to describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, specifically someone who avoided military service.
NXvpN TIL that fortune telling is a class b misdemeanor in NY state (but is allowed for entertainment purposes only, rather than claiming it is the truth)