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TIL Yahoo still exists! Which suprised me.

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bNRN TIL that at least about 100 North Korean defectors to South Korea, unable to cope with the new society, isolation, and lack of job prospects, have went back to North Korea.
W7Jv4 TIL that every Depeche Mode studio album since Songs of Faith and Devotion in 1993 has hit #1 in Germany. That's 8 albums in a row now.
7elZ TIL the five richest women in American married into their money or were born into it.
nerod TIL 'Hollywood Accounting' is a creative accounting process used to hide film profits. Some of the highest grossing films of all time have actually registered 'net loss' and 'no profit' on paper using this process (incl. Return of the Jedi; Forrest Gump; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Harry Potter)
wogJY TIL about Sampson/Mammoth - the largest horse recorded. He was a Shire breed horse over 7ft tall & weighed as much as an SUV. Horses this size are becoming exceedingly rare: Both Shires and Clydesdales, large draught breeds, are endangered with less than 5,000 estimated alive worldwide.