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TIL that a team of Danish comedians went to North Korea to mock them, using the cover of being Danish a culture exchange group and they got away with it and made a movie.

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QwdM TIL Hitler once asked 18 year old figure skater and future actress Vera Ralston “would you like to skate for the swastika”, to which she replied “I’d rather skate ON the swastika”
jNRpQ TIL that Coca-Cola made a soda for the dystopian future, called OK Soda, which came with its own manifesto, and the slogan, "Everything is going to be OK."
pM18 TIL Jackie Chan is almost deaf in his right ear because of the injury he suffered while filming Armour of God.
VNw4 TIL that Masao Yoshida, the plant manager at Fukushima in 2011, disobeyed orders to stop pumping seawater into the nuclear reactor. This stopped a greater disaster that would have affected millions of lives.
dD4Md TIL that cicadas are the world’s loudest insects; their singing can be as loud as 100 decibels