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TIL North Korea is the only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured.

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gMyOD TIL James Earl Ray was not arrested until two months after MLK’s assassination and had traveled to Canada, Portugal and England.
woVAY TIL when a cockroach touches a human it runs to safety to clean itself.
D1oxg TIL in 2000, Microsoft was ordered to split in two by the US government in an anti-trust suit. Microsoft appealed and eventually settled, agreeing to cease anti-competitive behaviour.
wLoPo TIL in 1976, Henry Kissinger became the first honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
kMxW TIL during WWII, Hawaii had its own unique US banknotes. In case of Japanese invasion, the US government would have declared the notes worthless to prevent their use by Japanese troops.