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TIL North Korea has made a thriving state sponsored industry out of insurance scams for decades

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LQpGr TIL that in 1964, Illinois reelected all 177 members of the Illinois House of Representatives. This resulted in a ballot with 236 names and over 500 million individual candidate votes
694KJ TIL that boiling water can remove microplastics
5VJMr TIL the sum mass of prey consumed each year by world’s spiders is greater than the mass of all humans on the planet.
rNVGM TIL the specifics about an ancient Greek sex position has been lost to history. In Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, women going on a sex strike vow to never "assume the position of the lioness on the cheese grater."
BroGx TIL there's been proposals to terraform Venus for a human colony since the 1960's, such as thinning the dense atmosphere to reduce the 450 °C surface temperature, setting up a system of orbital mirrors to give it Earth-like day/night cycle, and colliding it with an ice moon to fill it with water.