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TIL North Korea has a 100% literacy rate.
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TIL the highly expensive paint “Ultramarine blue” is named not after it’s ocean-blue color, but instead means “from beyond the sea” (i.e. imported from Asia)
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TIL NFL great Jim Brown retired at only 29 while filming "The Dirty Dozen"
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TIL the classic Peanuts football gag ended on October 24, 1999. In the final strip, Rerun held the football instead of Lucy and whether or not Charlie Brown kicked the football was never revealed.
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TIL a coal stoker named Arthur John Priest survived the sinking of five ships, including the Titanic, earning the nickname "The Unsinkable Stoker"
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TIL about Dorino Serafini from Pesaro, Italy. Still the only man in F1 History to have a 100% podium record. He finished joint 2nd at the 1950 Italian GP for Ferrari with his teammate Alberto Ascari (only italian man to win an F1 title for Ferrari). The race was won by Luigi Fagioli.