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TIL that Kim Il-sung, the founding leader of North Korea who died in 1994, is still officially the Eternal President of the country according to the constitution.

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PJbE TIL there is a large underground tunnel system connecting over twenty buildings in Houston. In the tunnels there is everything from food courts to dry cleaners.
b6k5E TIL in 2019, NASA had investigated a claim that one of its astronauts illegally accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse while on board the International Space Station, in what is considered the first crime ever committed in space.
v71r TIL that octopuses are so smart that they’re given puzzles so they won’t get bored in captivity
gMXXA TIL that the Pyrenean ibex was cloned back from extinction for several minutes, three years after the species had originally gone extinct, until the clone that had been produced died due to lung defects
oBaPE TIL Australia’s most successful athlete is David Foster. He has held the World Woodchopping Championship title for 21 consecutive years and won over 1000 titles.