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TIL In 1965, a U.S. Army sergeant drunkenly deserted his company, wandered into North Korea, and was forced to be an interpreter, actor, teacher, and father by the North Korean regime until his release..wait for it..39 years later, in 2004.

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OlG1 TIL In 1838, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel about a shipwreck where three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, there was a real shipwreck, in which three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
X0p1D TIL when Bryan Cranston was 12, he encountered Charles Manson while riding horses with his cousin at the Spahn Ranch, a year before the Tate murders occurred.
kOQG4 TIL Although the Korean and Chinese languages are not related in terms of grammatical structure, more than 50 percent of all Korean vocabulary is derived from Chinese loanwords
4XEQb TIL that after surviving a car accident and receiving a settlement, Paul Dennis Reid used the money to get a plastic surgery, and then pursued a career as a country singer, under the stage name Justin Parks. When that failed, he became a serial killer.
xVLob TIL Mac Hadley, experimented on himself by injecting a sunless tanning compound he was working on, but instead it gave him an eight-hour erection along with nausea and vomiting