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TIL Fresh apples sold at supermarkets might've been picked a year ago

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RM4j TIL that the North Korean government operates a chain of restaurants that appear throughout China and Southeast Asia and even Russia. Each restaurant funnels $100k - $300k per year back to the DPRK.
XEv6j TIL that the famed Allied spy Nancy Wake cycled 500 km (310 mi) in three days. She and her radio operator was ambushed and was forced to flee, leaving the radio, so she cycled to the nearest resistance radio and back in three days.
MeDxW TIL when John White was nine a teacher told him he would grow up to be a garbage man. When John's dad found out, he told his son to grow up to be his best, look for the best in others, and it was ok if he was a garbage man. John White grew up to become Pulitzer Prize photojournalist.
e0o86 TIL American life expectancy increased during the Great Depression
wjvE TIL The USSR named one of its last policies (which allowed the nations of the Eastern Bloc to determine their own internal affairs) the ‘Sinatra Doctrine’ - a reference to the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” as the Soviet Union was effectively allowing its satellite states to go their 'own way’.