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TIL North Korea has a 100% literacy rate.

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W6Jo TIL that there is a cruise ship travelling the seas that is a actually residential community owned by its residents
69gmQ TIL Liquid Helium is the perfect element to keep the superconductive magnets in MRI machines cold
LkKkp TIL the English common-law term for a Karen is a "Common Scold", and the punishment was the Ducking-stool
gMkd8 TIL that Kailash Temple,the 8th Century Hindu Megalith was hand-chiseled from top to bottom out of a single huge stone of granite while Aurangzeb, the Mughal ruler who sought to destroy it couldn't even accomplish it in 3 years with a 1000 men and he describes the stone as "too hard to be broken".
kOXDB TIL an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of feathers, a pound of gold is lighter than a pound of feathers and a kilogram of gold and feathers are equal in weight.