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TIL that “Ukraine” roughly means “Borderlands”, and was referred to as “the Ukraine” during Soviet times, but no longer.

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PP7e TIL The US Marines found a stockpile of Taliban weapons in 2010 that contained a 1915 Lee-Enfield Bolt Action rifle still being used.
XeBR TIL Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widow’s home.
10k4 TIL that the founder and CEO of a Greek yogurt company (Chobani) was a Turkish immigrant who came to the U.S. with only $3,000 and bought an abandoned factory, and started producing yogurt. Now, his company generates over a billion dollars in revenue.
djQj TIL you can become an honorary resident of Newfoundland by speaking a recitation, taking a shot of the local whiskey, and kissing a fish.
9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.