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TIL That a big part of the reason the Australian Labor Party is not spelled "Labour" is because American-Australians had a strong presence in Australia's early labor movement.

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JRjl TIL: The 2005 film “A History Of Violence” was the last major Hollywood motion picture released on VHS.
8ePkP TIL That Alexander Keith Jr, the nephew of the famed Canadian brewer, was a US confederate spy, blew up a freighter with dynamite for insurance fraud, was blamed for missing ocean liners, and had his severed head on display until it was destroyed by German bombing
DQMvj TIL that Ben & Jerry’s has a real “Flavor Graveyard” for discontinued ice creams.
dDDW8 TIL about the Great Attractor which it was previously thought the Milky Way was moving towards at 1,342,162 mph, but now the Great Atractor AND the Milky Way are both moving towards Shapely Supercluster. Observation of these areas is blocked by the Milky Way for the next 100 million years.
XEywQ TIL the 42-story Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh's campus is the tallest education building in the Western Hemisphere. It includes 31 "nationality rooms" that are designed to celebrate different cultures and nationalities.