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TIL: The State Department's advice for people who want to visit N. Korea is 'Draft a will'

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vPRLj TIL of the Chinese submarine Ming III, which was found drifting by fishermen in 2003 after all the crew asphyxiated from the diesel engine using all the oxygen. The dead sailors were all at their posts, implying they died quickly without knowing there was a problem.
r901 TIL That Rather Than Use CGI, Tim Burton Had 40 Squirrels Trained to Crack Nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
R779 TIL Scientists have actually performed “succesful” head/brain transplants. “When the newly attached monkey woke up, he tried to bite off the finger of an attending doctor, and everyone cheered.”
vPbL4 TIL that Enzo Ferrari chose not to get too close to his drivers, out of fear of emotionally hurting himself, after the death of Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari in 1955. Later in life, he relented his position and grew very close to Gilles Villeneuve, who would also die driving a Ferrari in 1982
m1voO TIL Teddy Roosevelt saved American football from becoming extinct due to the excessive fatalities and “blood baths” the sport once caused