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TIL that in 2007, the US Navy helped rescue a North Korean ship from Somail pirates, resulting in a rare pro-American press statement in North Korea

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vDPL TIL there are a total of 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks in ‘The Lego Movie’. Recreating the movie would require 15,080,330 Lego pieces, with 183 different types of Lego minifigures.
y0np TIL in 1986, at the height of apartheid, Glasgow, Scotland changed the name of the square where the South African consulate-general was based to Nelson Mandela Place, forcing the South African attaché to have to write this address if they wanted to receive mail.
rRK40 TIL The earliest known life-forms on Earth are fossilised micro-organisms, found in hydrothermal vent precipitates (holes in the sea floor). They date to between 3.77 billion and 4.28 billion years ago.
ROM7 TIL that Germany completed its WWI reparation repayment in 2010, 92 years after the end of the war.
ekBD TIL a 1995 WHO study that stated “Occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems” was never published because the US threatened to withdraw US funding for all WHO research projects