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TIL that sarcasm is illegal in North Korea
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TIL that over 4000 years ago the first ever customer complaint was recorded in Sumerian, regarding poor quality ore.
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TIL that in 1991, Mark Fugate shot and killed his ex wife in her home in front of their 15 year old son. That son was beaten to death by his friends in the same house a year after his father's conviction
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TIL that despite containing mercury, compact fluorescent light globes emit less mercury into the environment than incandescent light globes which contain no mercury due to their lower electricity consumption
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TIL that Amazon ironically deleted copies of “1984” from customers’ Kindles, violating their own terms of service agreement.
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TIL in the UK at any one time, there is an average of 3.8 billion genuine banknotes in circulation, with a notional face value of around £75 billion.