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TIL Cuba has a 99.7% literacy rate

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VBV78 TIL That a binary star system passed through the outer boundary of the solar system ~70,000 years ago, which would've been visible to humans living in the northern hemisphere at the time.
Mej5m TIL Psy, famous for Gangnam Style, stayed up late for about 30 nights to come up with the dance. He had tested various "cheesy" animal-inspired dance moves with his choreographer, including panda and kangaroo moves, before settling for the horse trot, which involves pretending to ride a horse.
ggpL TIL that a Seattle man trained to fight a wild 80 pound octopus, underwater, in it’s natural habitat, without any weapon or SCUBA gear. He won the fight and then ate the octopus.
a8VbL TIL: About Alphonse Bertillion, an anthropologist and chief of France’s Judicial Identification Services who developed and was featured in the first standardized mug shot.
BgevL TIL Yaeko Taguchi, a 22-year-old Japanese mother of two, was abducted by North Korea in 1978 after leaving her kids at daycare. Forced to teach Japanese to spy Kim Hyon-hui, later involved in the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing, Kim said Taguchi often wept for her children. Her fate remains unknown.