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TIL that COLLABORATIONISM does not carry the same positive connotation as its root word. It instead refers to the carrying out an act of treason; most commonly applicable to WW-II

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MeR5W TIL: Similar to Italian produced westerns being called Spaghetti Westerns, Australian produced westerns are called Meat Pie Westerns. "The Story Of the Kelly Gang", a 1906 film considered by some to be the world's first feature length film, is a Meat Pie Western.
9w00G TIL that the number of US federal government employees has hovered between approx. 2.7Mil and 3Mil since 1967. Lowering the per capita ratio from 1.5 employees per 100 people to 0.9 employees per 100 people.
9Llm TIL The US has 88.8 guns per 100 persons
P1aBn TIL Treskilling Yellow is the only known stamp of its kind in existence. They were supposed to be blue-green not yellow but they made a mistake in the 1850s in Sweden. It was valued at between £1.29 million and £1.73 million before the sale in 2010.
mENO TIL a senior NYC mobster refused a hospital bloodbank transfusion after surgery in case he received African american blood, he then caught HIV from the donation of a fellow mobster’s blood who was an intravenous steriod user