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TIL that wearing jeans is illegal in North Korea.

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Gg64 TIL baseball player Tim Raines would often use cocaine between innings in the dugout, and would only slide head first to avoid breaking the cocaine vials that he carried in his back pocket.
7jYL TIL In 1889 a lion escaped from a traveling show in Birmingham and ran into the sewers. When an angry mob formed, Frank Bostock, the owner secretly snuck another lion out the back. He then returned with the lion clearly visible and was hailed a hero. The escaped lion was still in the sewers.
lo4Qa TIL anti-communists wanted the story of Robin Hood removed from education because they considered 'stealing from the rich to give to the poor' as communism
wL9w7 TIL Michael Jackson was a virtuoso composer, despite being unable to read music or play instruments well. He wrote the the parts to his songs by singing and beatboxing into a tape recorder. "“He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything."
E1850 TIL Of Alfred Kroeber who studied a man he named Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe who walked into the modern world in 1911. In Ishi's culture, knowing ones name gives you power over them, so Ishi just means Man. This idea of magic in naming things influenced Kroeber's daughter Ursula Le Guin.