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TIL that the tallest building in Korea is not in super-booming South Korea, but in North Korea. The RyuGyong Hotel.

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x69Xb TIL that some women may have beards, due to polycystic ovary syndrome, an endocrine disorder that sometimes causes women to grow excess hair.
780BP TIL that Tommy Lee Jones hated working with Jim Carrey during the movie Batman Forever (1995). He told Carrey, “I hate you. I really don’t like you,” and when Carrey asked why, he said he cannot sanction Jim Carrey's buffoonery.
OoAEX TIL that the element Cobalt gets its name from a trickster goblin of German folklore, the kobold, because when medieval miners discovered it and tried to smelt it thinking it was silver, it released toxic gasses they believed to be the goblin playing a trick on them.
BrZ1y TIL George Lucas's Star Wars pioneered the idea of omitting opening credits, a move that cost him $250,000 in fines.
4kOEN TIL that third places - areas other than the home or the workplace where humans can connect and unwind, are dying, and this is a silent killer of our communities