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TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009

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VMvEk TIL Shock G and Humpty Hump from Digital Underground are the same person.
5VQEP TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the French defense system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 337,000 casualties to retake it.
6EBYQ TIL former Chicago Blackhawks goalie Sam LoPresti once killed a dolphin with basically a shiv, to feed 28 of his shipmates who were stranded on a lifeboat for 42 days, after a German torpedo took out their ship. They cooked the meat in a bucket full of kerosene soaked rags. Hockey players, man...
mABP TIL: In 2005, the BBC asked readers to vote for individual band members to create an “ideal supergroup.” They voted for Led Zeppelin
XE6Nk TIL Don LaFontaine, the movie trailer voice guy, offered to record an answering machine message for anyone that contacted him, if he had the time. He received so many requests, he had to stop offering.