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TIL Kim Jong-il only ever publicly addressed the North Korean people once, in 1992 he said during a military parade “Glory to the officers and soldiers of the heroic Korean People’s Army!.” He never made another public speech again.

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YpGLZ TIL that, after making a quip about dog food being Kosher, I discovered that there IS Kosher pet food being produced.
kOR41 TIL: A study conducted in Finland found that BMW and Audi drivers are the most likely to ignore traffic regulations and drive recklessly. They are also more likely to be self centered, unempathetic, and view themselves as superior. Interestingly, the connection mostly applies to men.
GY1KG TIL When he was the Governor of Tennessee, former US President Andrew Johnson made with his own hands a very handsome suit of clothes and sent it to the Governor of Kentucky, who had been a blacksmith in his young days. He forged a shovel and tongs and sent them to Johnson.
E1wkP TIL the most successful Nazi interrogator in world war 2 never physically harmed an enemy soldier, but treated them all with respect and kindness, taking them for walks, letting them visit their comrades in the hospital, even letting one captured pilot test fly a plane. Virtually everybody talked.
9Y9v7 TIL of Canadian conservation officer Bryce Casavant, dispatched to kill a female black bear found eating from a freezer in a mobile home park. He complied with the order to kill the mother bear but got fired for refusing to kill her 2 cubs. He finally won a legal battle to vindicate his decision.