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TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009

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WkGvN TIL that Australia's first cops were all criminals. Our first police force was made up of 12 of the best behaved convicts.
bWe9 TIL that after being released from jail, Brian O'Dea advertised his services as an executive business manager in Canada’s National Post, citing his multi-million dollar marijuana smuggling ring as proof. He got almost 600 job offers.
4XaZo TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.
d8Xb7 TIL that a Serbian flight attendant once fell 10,160 meters (33,330 ft) without a parachute and survived.
aw0no TIL of the salt mine lake disaster which occured in 1980 due to a "minor miscalculation" by Texaco, which resulted in an entire lake being drained into a salt mine. The vortex even reversed the current of the gulf of mexico for 4 days