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TIL Netflix Saves Us From Over 130 Hours of Commercials a Year

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awmmM TIL: There's a skyscraper with a Ferris wheel built in. The first-of-its-kind ride is mounted over 300 feet above street level. Plans for the project fell through and the building currently stands empty.
Do8j TIL to annoy his captors, an American POW in North Korea would pretend every day that he was riding around on an invisible motorcycle until eventually, his captors “confiscated” the motorcycle and stated that it was “against the rules and regulations.”
xMWb TIL that declawing a cat amputates a joint and is illegal in most countries
vPv9x TIL An estimated 350,000 Chinese visited North Korean in 2019 and the demographic visiting Pyongyang are between the age of 45 to 60. Many Chinese tell their guides that it is just like how they used to live
Br0lb TIL about Ed Reeves, a US marine who survived the Korean War despite having shrapnel in his legs, being shot in the head, and getting beaten with rifle butts by the enemy soldiers. Despite all of this, he was able to crawl out onto the frozen Chosin Reservoir, where he was rescued.