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TIL An American believed to have been kidnapped since 2004 was discovered this year to be living in North Korea with a wife & 2 kids, where he teaches English.

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9Y5vD TIL: An affair between two Brazilian politicians was revealed when they danced together to "Bésame Mucho". Later, one of them was to be introduced with a military march, but the director of the presidential band had them play "Bésame Mucho" instead. He got 3 days of house arrest for insubordination.
XNxr TIL that in 1941, the RAF dropped packages containing tea bags over the German occupied Netherlands. The packages were marked, “Holland will rise again… Keep your chins up.”
KYL7E TIL that in 1963 The Bronx Zoo nad an exhibit called The Most Dangerous Animal in World. It was only a mirror.
ZpXJG TIL that in 2017, CBS and NBC put an ad on New York Times claiming they're the most watched network in US, at the same day in just 3 pages apart
E1PjV TIL a woman named Hien Tran was laying in intensive care after a car accident and investigators were searching for clues due to apparent stab wounds in her neck. A week after she died, a letter arrived from Honda urging her to get her red Accord fixed, because of faulty airbags that could explode