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TIL that the United States has attacked or “intervened” officially in 145 countries since 1890. It has also been alleged that over 40 assassination attempts have been attempted or completed to initiate regime change favorable to the USA (source in comments).

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BbJy TIL that prior to the income tax being enacted in 1913, the U.S. government got up to 40% of its revenue from alcohol taxes. Without the income tax in place, the Prohibition Amendment would likely not have been proposed by the Senate in 1917.
XEk9X TIL Germans call mobile phones "Handies". eg Klaus gave Otto a Handy for his Birthday.
p8X9b TIL - Shortly after the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, the Nazis had set up an area with captured Yugoslav aircraft. But while the German guards were listening to the news, local communists moved the fence separating the working ones from the non-working ones, leading to all aircraft being scrapped.
pMxQ TIL: North Korea and the United States are the only countries that have their children pledge allegiance to the state in schools.
R78aw TIL that some people can't picture things in their mind and that those people are sometimes surprised to learn that other people CAN picture things in their mind