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TIL that there is little evidence that Kim Jong-il and the North Korean media ever claimed that he made any kind of improbable golf score. Even North Korean officials say it is an urban myth.

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6MJ7 TIL that the original plan for the May 15 Incident, an attempted coup d'état in Japan in 1932, was to assassinate Charlie Chaplin to facilitate war with the US. When the prime minister was killed, Chaplin was with the prime minister’s son watching a sumo wrestling match, which saved their lives.
WR8N TIL an office started working naked(literally) for one month to see its effects on creativity [nsfw]
R5oL6 TIL that fat Chinese criminal Jho Low used to have the sex with supermodel Miranda Kerr
e1dn TIL that when the US government renamed a fish species from ‘slimehead’ to 'orange roughy’ it went from being relatively unknown, to becoming a threatened species within a decade.
xVEp5 TIL There's a service саlled "Сleaning for a rеason" in the U.S. and Саnada that сleans the housеs of women with cancer for frее, so they can focus on their health