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TIL that wearing jeans is illegal in North Korea.

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VM78k TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of applicants with perfect SAT scores. The percentage of students who took the SAT and got a perfect SAT score is less than 1%.
EgV7W TIL that squirrels can't find more than half the nuts they hide
lo8oN TIL that much like "Seeing Eye" dogs for the blind, there are "Hearing Ear" dogs for the deaf.
VM6a0 TIL that on April Fools, 2 radio DJs from Florida told their listeners that "dihydrogen monoxide", which is an alternative chemical name for water, was coming out of the taps. Their remark results in suspension and possible felony charges.
OoYM6 TIL that using sign language, a caretaker communicated female chimp that her own baby died, to which the female chimp signed back "CRY" "touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human" (chimps can't shed tears)