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Homesick student Kleon Papadimitriou biked 48 days to make it back home to his family during lockdown!

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b9Q64 TIL Held every two years, the Pyongyang International Film Festival offers North Koreans their only chance to see foreign films on the big screen. Those who don't have the means to go to the theatre tune into the Mansudae TV channel, which shows mostly Chinese and Eastern European films on weekends
m6GR TIL that Mark Twain disliked Jane Austen’s work enough to say “every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”
Wwb8 TIL that altough prostitution is legal in Portugal, it is illegal for third parties to profit from it. (So brothels are illegal)
J1mlk TIL N.Machiavelli's remains are lost, partially because an angry bull once chased a man who was trying to hide inside the Machiavelli family chapel/tomb, located inside the Santa Croce Basilica in Florence. The bull gored the man to death, ransacking the chapel in the process
KOaRa TIL that much of the human genome is made up the DNA of long extinct viruses which infected our ancestors