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TIL Newt Gingrich has co-written multiple alternate history novels

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R5Mb1 TIL East Pyongyang No.1 Middle School in North Korea has taught a "Mao Zedong class" since 1959, where students learn Chinese language and songs. It has exchange programs with its sister school in Beijing which offers a "Kim Il-sung class"
x5XD TIL Thailand has highest number of female CEOs globally
PYV1V TIL two weeks after South Carolina seceded from the Union New York City's Mayor proposed secession as well in order to continue its extraordinarily lucrative cotton trade with the seceded South.
e0jpL TIL the 2011 hit "We Are Young" by Fun was conceived during lead singer Nate Ruess's worst drinking night of all time, which ended with him vomiting in a cab.
45pR TIL Of the Malasyian exploding ant. An ant that can self destruct and explode to take down enemies.