› added 3 months ago

7

TIL that defection from North Korea have plummeted from 2,803 to less then 99 in 2023.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

v1D84 TIL that out of more than 100 billion people who have lived and died on earth, only 24 have the first hand experience of seeing full circle of earth from space.
ADNZ7 TIL historians are unsure why New York is the Empire State.
GAmMg TIL that Aruna Shanbaug, an Indian nurse spent 42 years in a vegetative state after a brutal assault in 1973. Shanbaug died of pneumonia on 18 May 2015, after being in a persistent vegetative state for nearly 42 years.
dbDQ TIL: That 80’s superstar and gay legend Boy George returned a looted Christ icon to a Cyprus church in 2011, having bought the piece in 1985 without knowing its origin.
QJegp TIL Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name was Orpah Gail Winfrey, but people didn't know how to spell or pronounce Orpah, so they switched the p before the r and the name stuck