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

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ZdW4 TIL: When the Apollo 8 astronauts were sued by an atheist activist for reading from Genesis in lunar orbit, the Supreme Court threw out the case. Their reason? “Lack of jurisdiction” in orbit around the Moon.
Zp7Ro TIL The name "sniper" comes from the verb "to snipe", which originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India in reference to shooting. An extremely challenging game bird for hunters due to its alertness, camouflaging colour and erratic flight behaviour.
E5Rp TIL eHarmony only matches women with men who are taller than them, because of complaints from women matched with short men
akA9 TIL in 2013, scientists sequenced genome of a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in permafrost in at Thistle Creek, Yukon, Canada
6EpNY TIL about Yokai. Japanese folklore from the 8th century that gave birth to modern Japanese entertainment like Manga and anime.