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TIL during a meeting with the UN, North Koreans came with AK-47s under their jackets. Instead of confronting them American officers turned up the heat in the room to make them sweat under their heavy clothes

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xVYKw TIL about Diego the Hood Island giant tortoise, who was one of the 15 individuals of his kind that were left in 1976. Through a captive breeding effort, he fathered 900 offspring which helped increase the wild population to 2,000. Last year, he was released back into the wild.
jNEYM TIL of Gorillas Titus and Beetsme: they met and bonded as Juveniles and later created a rare bachelor group for 8 years while the duo had homosexual relations. After adding some females they drove of the other males and effectively shared power in what became the largest gorilla group in the world
9YKJQ TIL that "A Fistful of Dollars", the first of the Man with no Name trilogy, was an unlicensed remake of Akira Kurasawa's film "Yojimbo". Kurasawa filed a lawsuit, then settled with Sergio Leone out of court with 15% of international receipts and over $100,000.
4RVg TIL The Grey School of Wizardry is a school specializing in occult magic, operating primarily online and as a non-profit educational institution in the State of California. The school is reported to be the first wizard school to be officially recognized as an academic establishment.
pYP0Q Today I learned that one of the reasons why Walt Disney decided to build Disney World in the eastern US is because only 5% of Disneyland's visitors came from east of the Mississippi River.