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TIL North Korea has a 100% literacy rate.

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Oo097 TIL that the Black Knight in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail was inspired by two Roman wrestlers who were in a very intense and entangled fight. After one surrendered from pain of a broken rib an attendant picked up the winner, tapping him and saying "You won" to discover that he was dead.
1dWr TIL at one point in the 1990’s, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it
awRVM TIL BBC has a kids show called “RastaMouse” where the main character- RastaMouse, is a Jamaican, crime-fighting, reggae music star
eBX6 TIL that Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
OoDdg TIL Dinosaurs lived on the earth over a span of 200 million years. That means less time separates us from T-rex than T-rex from early Stegosaurus (an early dinosaur)