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TIL that North Korea has a policy of mandatory voting to elect its legislature…but each ballot has only a single candidate on it.

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WkByd TIL of Chubut Province. A province in Argentina that speaks Welsh.
VpKp TIL in 1983, pioneering urologist Sir Giles Skey Brindley injected himself with an erectile dysfunction medication in order to prove its effectiveness. He showed off his resulting erection at an academic conference, even approaching the audience members for them to closely inspect his “results”.
ZpMBB TIL You actually burn more calories in the cold weather than warm weather.
pgxZ TIL a surgical antiseptic was distilled and sold as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea, then was then re-marketed as what we know now as Listerine.
j6jQv TIL that the Komusō were Japanese monks who symbolized their absence of ego by always wearing baskets on their heads.