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

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yMKa TIL a woman was awarded $988,000 in 1986 after claiming a CAT scan took away her psychic powers.
4XZ46 TIL that there is a concept opposite to déjà vu called jamais vu, wherein familiar concepts or situations become seemingly unfamiliar. An example of which is when words sound like jibberish after saying or writing them enough times.
LPgd TIL after receiving poor reception following the viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas to network executives, an animator, who had been drinking, said, “it’s going to run for a hundred years” and then fell down.
R9M6 TIL Steve Jobs found a loophole in California law which allows cars less than six months old to be driven without license plates. He made an arrangement to lease an identical new Mercedes every six months so he would never have to put license plates on it.
amRL TIL that sharks can collapse under their own body weight on land because they lack a rib cage.