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TIL that North Korea is the only country in the world with a Shia Muslim mosque but no Sunni Muslim mosques

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Zw4B TIL that regardless of what service you get your weather information from, almost all of the data comes from the same place. NOAA has the only nationwide weather radar and operates the only weather satellites in the US. It freely distributes it’s information into the public domain.
OoYra TIL Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album was on the Billboard charts for a total of 741 consecutive weeks from 1973 to 1988
ADnjd TIL Mongols used catapult to send dead soldier bodies infected by the plague across the walls.
69GwZ TIL a cashew nut grows as a fruit and the “nut” is actually a seed. The seed’s skin requires processing because it contains urushiol, a resin that causes skin irritation similar to poison ivy.
9dDG TIL Péter Zwack, escaped the Communists in 1948, was granted US entry just because he had the Zwack recipe for Unicum, the National Shot of Hungary. After 40 yrs went back, bought the factory from the State, became Hungarian Ambassador to the US. The State owned factory had been using a fake recipe.