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TIL North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate.

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Y7G0Z TIL hot spots fed by mantle plumes can result in lava floods in intraplate regions. These results in much more lava (hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt) being released than regular eruptions and create flood basalts.
YQoZ TIL a systematic review of homeopathic medicine found it was effective in treating 0 out of 68 illnesses and was essentially just a placebo.
GYn6j TIL The Ring Finders is a worldwide organization of metal-detection enthusiasts who recover lost items at little to no cost. Members have about an 80% success rate at finding last keys, rings, cellphones, time capsules, burial urns and more.
4gvb TIL Hong Kong has the fastest internet upload and download speed in the world at 56.78 mbps and 68.27 mbps, respectively. This is 48.76 mbps faster than average of the G8 countries for both indexes.
VDY8 TIL the Friends cast still make about $20 million a year each from syndication rights