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TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009

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JdJ4 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson used to troll guests in his car by driving into a lake whilst pretending that the brakes were failing – the car was, secretly, an amphibious vehicle.
ne8ZB TIL that Danielle Steel has sold over 600 million copies, outselling such iconic authors such as Stephen King and J.K. Rowling
kLY7 TIL the guy who played Scotty in Star Trek shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
4XG4a TIL comic Andy Kaufman's 4-F deferment for the draft concluded that Kaufman lived in a fantasy world, disconnected from reality, and if put in the military would "lose his mind". He loved the letter and proudly displayed it as he had purposely treated his psych eval as a high-stakes joke.
ap7N TIL studies have unsuccessfully tried to kill dogs by overdosing on marijuana.