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TIL that literacy in North Korea is measured by their ability to write the name of their Dear Leader.

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l1YV TIL Bill Murray doesn’t have an agent, just an 800 number that you call and leave a voicemail pitching your movie.
9w6KM TIL many female insects mate only once in their lives. Insect populations can be controlled by releasing flocks of sterile males into the wild. Females mate with them, never give birth and simply die.
W7RJA TIL that there are wild Wallabies on the Isle of Man
e0EY4 TIL People have “stripes” that glow under UV light. German dermatologist Alfred Blaschko discovered Blaschko’s Lines in 1901, which show the migration of embryonic skin cells. The lines aren’t normally visible unless the person has a skin disorder such as chimerism.
yVlZv TIL that most modern Omega quartz movements come equipped with an end-of-life (EOL) indication system. When the battery nears exhaustion, the second hand will move in 4-second jumps.