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TIL It is not known how many US federal laws actually exist and are in force

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W7QEX TIL that Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky was not at the funeral of Vladimir Lenin, despite being among the USSR's top leadership at the time of his death. Trotsky later claimed he had deliberately been told the wrong date for the funeral.
GDRE TIL: Before video game addiction, people were blaming Dungeons and Dragons for suicide and teen satanism.
Kgp6 TIL that the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulips anually to Canada in thanks for all the aid they provided in WWII
OQ9Y TIL that Chinese courts have a 99.99% conviction rate (measured in 2009)
M7oKW TIL: In the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of black Americans fled from slavery and prejudice. They sailed to West Africa, and 1847 founded the nation of Liberia: a black ethnostate meant to be a haven for African Americans.