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TIL 99% of consumer grade fireworks are made in China

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N7loE TIL that despite being dead, Kim Il Sung is still president of North Korea, and they still celebrate his birthday
7r7Zx TIL: Microorganisms constitute more than 90% of the biomass in the sea. It is estimated that viruses kill approximately 20% of this biomass each day, and that there are 15 times as many viruses in the oceans as there are bacteria and archaea
VMaMm TIL the Vietnamese word for honey, "mật ông," is widely accepted by linguists to be related to the English word "mead," as the Vietnamese word came from Chinese, which in turn, got it from the now-extinct Indo-European Tocharian language once spoken in present-day NW China.
eG8n TIL Pilots are not allowed to take Viagra within six hours of flight as Viagra can have an effect on color vision and they see the world with a bluish tinge for several hours
Egm6X TIL standard pointe (ballet) shoes are manufactured using a single last (mechanical form shaped like a foot), meaning there is no 'left' and 'right' shoe. Breaking in the shoes through use is what adapts them to the left or right foot