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TIL that sarcasm is illegal in North Korea

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N7ge TIL: George Lucas was sure Star Wars was going to flop, so he made a friendly bet with Stephen Spielberg: That if Close Encounters of the Third Kind made more money than SW, he would get 2.5% of the profit for all time, and vice versa. Spielberg still gets enormous, grudging checks today.
r6ne TIL Russians gave one of the puppies of the space dog, Strelka to JFK’s daughter Caroline.
NwWE TIL that the lion’s habitat once extended as far north as Turkey and all the way from North Africa to India.
VB454 TIL The world’s largest Chocolate Easter egg was created in Italy in 2011. It stood over 34 feet tall and weighed more than 15,000 pounds—even taller than a giraffe. It was made entirely of chocolate and set a Guinness World Record for the tallest chocolate Easter egg ever made
e08ag Although coral reefs cover just 0.1% of the seafloor, they provide a home for a quarter of all marine life.