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09nN TIL that every year around a dozen Japanese tourists have psychiatric breakdowns caused by French rudeness
b90YE TIL First 13 Chernobyl firefighters were taken to Moscow and were treated according to Dr. Robert Gale's instructions and only 2 survived. Second group of 11 firefighters were taken to Kiev and were treated by a different method - all 11 were saved.
GAxmJ TIL In 1958 a Dutch Gynecologist called Specken made the first recorded diagnosis of a woman allergic to seminal fluids, the condition is now known as seminal plasma allergy and men can be allergic to their own seminal fluids.
K44J TIL The incumbent president of North Korea is Kim Il-Sung. He assumed the office of the Eternal Presidency on July 8, 1994, and he has steadfastly held onto power, even though he’s been dead for 18 years. This makes North Korea the world’s only necrocracy.
Xb96 TIL When an NPR reporter says “We reached her on Skype” they’re doing so not to plug the service, but because Skype’s terms of service require it.