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TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009

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grBeb TIL in 2016 pop band OK Go recorded a video for their song "Upside Down & Inside Out" in zero gravity aboard a 'reduced gravity aircraft' (AKA vomit comet). The 3-minute video required over 45 minutes of footage shot over 21 different flights.
1aEvr TIL Archaeologists have discovered Ancient Hebrew artifacts in North America. Research indicates that they predate the European discovery of the continent by several hundred years, at the least.
PYkdw TIL the first time a state was represented in the U.S. Senate by two women was 1993 with California's Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. The state has only been represented by women in the Senate ever since.
Lklm0 TIL The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone, meaning the highest point on Earth was once ocean seafloor.
yVnEJ TIL American socialite and art collector Peggy Guggenheim claimed to have slept with over 1,000 men, many of them well known artists and writers. Among her known friends and lovers were Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett and Max Ernst (who was also her second husband).