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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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X0kkk TIL in 2017, a man in Soka, Japan was arrested for stalking and assaulting young girls. He told the police that he copied the plan from the manga "Geiger Counter" where girls were assaulted by a man imitating a utility worker. Police requested that the author be more considerate in future works.
OG9V4 TIL that there is a negative form of the halo effect, called The Horn Effect , which allows one disliked trait or aspect of a person or product to negatively influence globally. For those seen in a negative light, anything they do that is negative is exemplified, while the positive are not seen.
b75a TIL that part of the reason that the cereal Oreo O’s was discontinued was due to the fact that it was the leading cause of child obesity in Spain
koVW TIL that even though people correlate the upside down cross with Satan, it actually symbolizes how peter didn’t want to be crucified in the same manner as Jesus.
8aDLL TIL North Korea has 1 of the biggest art factories, which makes both state propaganda, and colossal monuments that many countries have bought eg, Senegal’s African Renaissance Monument, in Dakar, 164 feet tall, taller than Rio de Janeiro’s Cristo Redentor