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TIL Korea has 40% of the worlds dolmens (a type of megalith) It is unknown why so many are in the peninsula

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VAgD TIL in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ (2003), they made a special effort to make sure that Sauron’s tower being destroyed did not resemble the World Trade Center attack.
ADeMB TIL about Operation Mindf**k: a group of 1960s pranksters who wanted to show how ridiculous conspiracy theories were by placing stories in the media attributing all calamities and conspiracies in the world to an 18th century Bavarian society called the Illuminati.
yVoyM TIL there has not been a midair collision of a jet airliner in the US in 36 years. From 1960 to 1986 there were eight such crashes, including one with a fighter jet near Los Angeles in 1971.
gNNW TIL that the current CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was also the first female employee at Google, in 1999.
dDQJK TIL State Dept considered lowering the fee to renounce US citizenship from $2350 to $450